New York City’s 100 worst landlords

Gotta catch ’em all.

Cory Doctorow

Jun 25, 2021·4 min read

‘Slums. Washington, D.C.’ Carl Mydans, 1935, Farm Security Administration — Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Treating shelter — a human right and necessity that sits just above food on the hierarchy of needs — as a commodity inevitably pits the creation and maintenance of wealth against the survival of the people for whom a home is a place to live, not an asset.

American prosperity has historically come from two sources — intergenerational wealth…