A landlord not receiving his rent will normally be at a tenant's throat, but a Bronx landlord and his tenant have been driven together into an alliance against the NYC Housing Authority's computerized records system, whose malfunctioning ways have cost the landlord more than $18,000 in foregone Section 8 rent subsidies. "Before this new computer system, you could always talk to a case manager; you could work out problems. Now, there’s no one to talk to." [NYDN]
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