Myra Smith, an organizer with Mothers and Others for Justice and the Room for All Coalition, called out by name the large landlords she sees gobbling up single-family, two-family, and three-family houses in predominantly working-class, African-American neighborhoods like Newhallville.
“Companies like Mandy and Pike go unchecked,” she said. They buy up properties, she said, get approvals from Section 8 housing inspectors, and then fail to keep those buildings up to code.
“They don’t fix things up,” she said, “and that causes stress.”
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