Boston’s ISD missing goals for apartment inspections
Boston’s Inspectional Services Department is nowhere near their original goal for inspecting 60,000 apartments by the end of 2015.
Boston’s Inspectional Services Department is nowhere near meeting their original apartment inspection goals for 2015, The Boston Globe reports, but tardy landlords might be to blame.
As part of a two-year program to curb potentially dangerous or unfit units, the ISD originally hoped to inspect 60,000 units by the year’s end, but has since lowered the goal to 44,000 inspections. Only 10,000 units have been inspected so far.
Why? Because the ISD wasn’t able to start inspecting units till October 2014, 10 months later than planned. City officials blame the late start on landlords failing to comply with a new ordinance that required all apartments to be registered with the city by August 2013. Thousands of units are still unregistered.
The ISD’s current unit inspections are part of a new law that requires all apartments in the city be inspected at least once every five years.
Though they’re far off from their goals, the ISD told the Globe they’re making “tremendous progress.’’ They also cited ongoing amendments to the ordinance as another reason for the late start.
Read the full Globe story here.
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