Jared Kushner’s company can’t collect rent from East Village building without proper paperwork, judge rules
Manhattan Housing Court Judge Francis Ortiz issued the decision earlier this week in the years-long battle.
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Jared Kushner’s company can’t collect rent from tenants at its East Village building until it gets the proper paperwork from the city, a housing court judge ordered.
Manhattan Housing Court Judge Francis Ortiz issued the decision earlier this week in the years-long battle.
The dispute centered around the Kushner Companies’ failure to obtain a certificate of occupancy after doing construction work at the East 9th St. building that the court deemed to be a “substantial alteration.”
Ortiz ordered that the company could not collect rent without the document.
The Kushner Companies is owned by the family of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law. The East Village dispute was depicted in the Netflix documentary “Slumlord Millionaire.”
Uta Winkler, the lead tenant in the case, and the Housing Rights Initiative have been critical of the city Buildings Department’s handling of the issue for over a year.
“The only thing worse than the unlawful business practices of Kushner Companies is the failed enforcement practices of the Department of Buildings,” said Aaron Carr, Founder and Executive Director of HRI. “Kushner Companies is a symptom of a larger problem and that problem is the sheer ineptitude and incompetence of the DOB.”
Carr has maintained that the Buildings Department was not enforcing its own codes.
A spokesman for the agency said it doesn’t enforce rules on rent payment and that in 2018 it issued a stop work order and multiple violations for false filings.
The Kushner subsidiary owes the city $2,300 in penalties associated with department violations.
“DOB was not a named party in this housing court case, and we don’t comment on civil litigation between private parties," agency spokesman Andrew Rudansky said.
A Kushner spokesperson did not immediately respond for comment.
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Jared Kushner Isn't Giving Residents a Break on Rent, but is Asking for Leniency From Lenders
With so many Americans being laid off, many are worried about making their next rent
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Jared Kushner Isn’t Giving Residents a Break on Rent, but is Asking for Leniency From Lenders
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With so many Americans being laid off, many are worried about making their next rent or mortgage payment. And to their credit, a number of landlords and banks have offered leniency to their tenants, letting them pay later.
That doesn’t mean that every property owner is letting their residents slide on the rent for a few months. Mother Jones recently acquired a letter from Jared Kushner’s property company to it’s customers. The renters were urged to get set up on a new payment portal “asap.”
The letter, sent from Westminster Management, told its residents, “Please all be safe and healthy. We will get through this, it is all just a matter of time.”
At the same time, the note read, “The management company was running on limited resources and that, due to the need to prevent contact between staff and residents, rent-payers could expect fewer services and directed that anything beside emergency maintenance requests should wait “until the situation has improved.”
The new payment system allows residents to pay for their rent with debit and credit cards.
Kushner may not be willing to give his renters a break on rent. But he’s asking for it for himself. The Washington Post’s David Farenthold told Joy Reid on Saturday, “The Kushner Company is asking for leniency from its lenders — there’s a retail space in Times Square that I’ve read they’re having trouble making the payments on. So they’re forcing others to make payments while trying to get out of it themselves.”
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Typical Kushner, puts his interests before America's. Makes you wonder what other interests could be influencing him if he can't go without collecting rent for a few months.
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