City wasting Hurricane Sandy FEMA cash on roach-infested hotels and single room occupancies

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City wasting Hurricane Sandy FEMA cash on roach-infested hotels and single room occupancies

Roach HotelPhoto by: Joe Marino/ New York Daily News

nydailynews.com - by Greg B. Smith - January 27th, 2013

 

Cast adrift by Hurricane Sandy, dozens of storm victims have been placed by the city in squalid SROs and fleabag hotels plagued by vermin, housing code violations and fire safety problems, a Daily News investigation has found.


As of Friday, there were 800 Sandy households still living in 50 hotels and SROs around town. The Mayor’s Office of Recovery refused to release the full list, but a spot check by The News found five full of safety and health issues.

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