This Monday, April 23 at 4 p.m., housing advocates, landlords and tenants are participating in a free panel discussion at Manhattan College to discuss potential reforms of the housing code enforcement system that would enable the city to more easily hold neglectful landlords accountable. The event, entitled,”Safe at Home: Putting Teeth in Housing Code Enforcement and Holding Landlords Accountable,” will take place on the first floor of the Leo Engineering Building, 3825 Corlear Ave., between West 238th and West 240th streets. All are welcome.

Jordan Moss, a former Norwood News editor, is one of the organizers of the panel, which arose from an investigation into landlord practices and regulations that was published in City Limits magazine last month. That series of stories, written by Moss, journalist Tom Robbins and a team of students at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, focused on wealthy real estate operative Frank Palazzolo, who has been tied to dozens of dilapidated Bronx buildings over the years (one of which was the scene of a deadly electrical fire on DeKalb Avenue in 2002, which killed an 8-year-old boy). To read the City Limits series, click here. To read some of the original Norwood News coverage of the fire, click here and  here.

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