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DBI says most housing‑authority complaints are resolved; commissioners press for better data and repeat‑offender lists
Summary
DBI housing staff told the commission that of roughly 150 housing‑authority cases sampled since the 2007 MOU there were about 244 housing code items and just four open cases in the sample; commissioners pressed for better breakdowns, lists of repeat offenders, and clarified that current work is complaint‑driven and constrained by staffing shortages.
Rosemary Bosque, chief housing inspector at the Department of Building Inspection, presented a summary of housing‑authority complaints and the MOU process on Aug. 17, saying DBI pulled a sample of cases and found about 150 reported complaints that spanned roughly 244 discrete housing‑code items since the MOU executed in February 2007.
Bosque said the majority of heat and hot‑water complaints are heat‑related and that DBI is meeting the one‑business‑day response requirement about 94% of the time; she also said about 27 cases sampled remain open for…
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