Comptroller Lander, focus on helping Ida victims instead of creating new penalties for landlords.

Your “Basement Resident Protection Law” is to empower tenants living in not-to-Building-Department-code basements to sue their landlord. You will make the current housing and homeless crisis even worse!

Instead, the 1907 Holzhausen v. City of New York case should be overridden and the City’s infrastructure and building codes should be upgraded in anticipation of more Ida-like rainfall events.