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[T] People v. Ventura5/6/2004
ey were all "family," a fact contradicted by the tenants and Department of Social Services records. After appearance by the District Attorney's investigators, this premises was closed. Again, there is no assurance that illegal housing will not be reestablished.
Next, in the City of Glen Cove, at 72 Robinson Avenue, City of Glen Cove another illegal boarding house is being paid for with government funds, and tenants supplied by the Department of Social Services in violation of local ordinances.
That house is in a zone that permits only single family occupancy. Municipal Code of the City of Glen Cove Section 30.63A. However, the Department of Social Services regularly sends clients needing emergency housing to the premises. Better run and cleaner than the houses previously mentioned, the house has still been the subject of many complaints of the City of Glen Cove Housing Department, the Deputy Attorney General for Medicaid Fraud Control and the Department of Social Services itself. Yet, D.S.S. clients are still being sent to the house which contains, besides seventeen illegal boarders, over six dogs and sixteen cats. When concerted attempts by the City to close this house occurred in 1977, the owner informed the City in writing she was closing her illegal boarding house. However, it continued in operation, while the Department of Social Services supplied tenants, the owner claiming that she was only following the law by taking in "four unrelated tenants" temporarily until her heath improves. That temporary period has expanded until the present time. As of last month, over seventeen tenants were living in the illegal boarding house.
Clearly, this condition could not exist and provide the problems it does to the City of Glen Cove absent the funds and tenants supplied by the Nassau County Department of Social Services.
The four remaining houses that accept Department of Social Services clients - singles or families - for emergency placement, upon inspection appeared much cleaner and better run than those previously mentioned. Department of Social Services clients placed there indicated they were happy with their housing conditions. None of these buildings, however, meet the local zoning or code requirements of the municipalities in which they exist.
144 East Graham Avenue, Village of Hempstead
No record that that house exists as a multiple dwelling or accepts boarders exists with the Village Building Department.
485 Coolidge Avenue, Lakeview, Town of Hempstead
No record that this building as a multiple dwelling or boarding house exists with the Town.
58 East Marie Street & 107 East Marie Street, Hicksville, Town of Oyster Bay
According to the Town Attorney, no record exists with the Town of Oyster Bay that these houses are boarding houses.
During our investigation, attorneys who represent these Department of Social Services clients agreed that minimum state and federal standards, which set forth the amount of space and the number of beds, tables, chairs, sanitary and kitchen facilities that must be provided to Department of Social Services clients, are being violated on a daily basis at some of these illegal boarding houses.
However, those same attorneys do not wish those buildings closed. They fear that, because Nassau County has a vacancy rate of less than 1% in the type of low cost housing affordable by Department of Social Services clients, the Department of Social Services clients would have nowhere else to live if all the illegal boarding houses were closed. Those advocates would rather fight to upgrade the poorer facilities than eliminate all the i
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