Housing Inspector Hits Landlord In Foreclosure With $6K Fine For Failure To Provide Water, Remove Garbage

In Haverstraw, New York, The Journal News reports:

• A village woman and her children have been living in a rental house under foreclosure that hasn't had water since May, health inspectors said [Wednesday]. Officials from the Rockland Department of Health have been trying to contact the owner of 55 New Main St. for months.

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• Public health law prohibits anyone living in a home without drinkable water. [...] No one has been able to locate [owner Charles] Polanco, who also has an address in the Bronx. [Wednesday], the [Board of Health] assessed a $6,000 fine against him for failing to provide water to the home and for failing to clean garbage from the property. A bank is in the process of foreclosing on the home, but it is still owned by Polanco.

For more, see Haverstraw family rents home with no water since May.

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