Cancel the December Tax Lien Sale? (New York, York: foreclose, house, neighborhood)

[PVW]

‘Cancel Tax Lien Sale,’ Brooklyn Community Groups Tell the City
At a public meeting on the 2021 tax lien sale, community groups, including Brooklyn’s Bridge Street Development, called on the city to halt this year’s sale.

An interesting discussion:

https://bkreader.com/2021/10/05/canc...tell-the-city/

From the article:

Brooklyn community groups called on the City to cancel the controversial tax lien sale planned for December, saying in a public meeting Oct. 1 that the sale increases the racial wealth gap.

Representatives of Habitat for Humanity, the New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives, Legal Services NYC, Bridge Street Development Corporation, Housing Organizers for People Empowerment, Small Property Owners of New York, New York City Artists Coalition, CUNY’s Hunter School of Urban Policy and Planning, the Abolish the Tax Lien Sale Coalition, and more, all spoke at the hearing, urging the city to rethink its lien sale practices.

Bridge Street Development Corporation President and CEO Gregory Anderson told those in attendance that the group firmly believed and strongly recommended that the lien sale scheduled for December should be cancelled.

“Given the historic and potentially negative impact of the lien sale on increasing the racial wealth gap within our community, we believe that until there is consensus, there should be no sale,” he told those in attendance.

The lien sale is held every year by the New York City Departments of Finance and Environmental Protection, where the tax liens on properties with unpaid property taxes and water bills are sold off in an auction.

The City sells the liens to a single authorized buyer, who does not take title to the property, but does purchase the right to collect the money owed plus interest and fees — ultimately multiplying the debt.

If the property owner does not pay, the lien holder may foreclose on the property and the building will be sold at auction.

This year, the Department of Environmental Protection has opted out of the sale, which will only include Department of Finance held property tax liens, not water and sewer liens.

The NYC Department of Finance page on the tax lien sale:

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/ta...ien-sales.page

[Tencent]

They should cancel it because the new owners will get shot by stray bullets for not doing their homework.

[dfc99]

I actually agree with these lefties for once. The NYC Lien Sale has become a backdoor way for NYC to confiscate private property. At least the NYCDEP sort of gets it this time. No Way should anyone ever lose their home over unpaid water/sewer bills.

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/ta...ien-sales.page

Lien List sorted by boro - address - house number for those wanting to make sure their home/building is not on the list - http://u.pc.cd/XODctalK

Note this is a 3529 page 35MB pdf file, so don't try printing it all out!!

[BugsyPal]

Originally Posted by dfc99

I actually agree with these lefties for once. The NYC Lien Sale has become a backdoor way for NYC to confiscate private property. At least the NYCDEP sort of gets it this time. No Way should anyone ever lose their home over unpaid water/sewer bills.

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/ta...ien-sales.page

Lien List sorted by boro - address - house number for those wanting to make sure their home/building is not on the list - http://u.pc.cd/XODctalK

Note this is a 3529 page 35MB pdf file, so don't try printing it all out!!

Except that thread of lien sale is only way certain people will ever pay their GD water or sewer bills.

Understand some people have geunine issues, and there are ways to deal with temporary financial setbacks.

That being said owning property comes with certain costs and responsibilities. People buy a home then try to run game, not paying water, sewer or other bills because, well they can for years until city gets fed up and starts collection action.

[Mr.Retired]

This one hit close to home.
My friend now deceased left his mother
in debt. She fell behind on payment and
as an elderly woman could not handle
the heart break of losing her home to
the lien executor.

We only found out she was in great debt after
she passed. She never burdened anyone with her
troubles. Makes me teary eyed just thinking about her.

She died in her sleep one week before
she was to end up homeless.


A truly good.....warm and wonderful human being. I miss her.
The Good Lord gave her the greatest place to live in Heaven.

[PVW]

Originally Posted by dfc99

I actually agree with these lefties for once. The NYC Lien Sale has become a backdoor way for NYC to confiscate private property. At least the NYCDEP sort of gets it this time. No Way should anyone ever lose their home over unpaid water/sewer bills.

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/ta...ien-sales.page

Lien List sorted by boro - address - house number for those wanting to make sure their home/building is not on the list - http://u.pc.cd/XODctalK

Note this is a 3529 page 35MB pdf file, so don't try printing it all out!!

If you go to the link, https://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/ta...ien-sales.page, you can click on the pdf (listed as acrobat) for the borough where you live and then do a search.

I searched by street name in my borough to discover the liens in my neighborhood. Some folks regularly do a block/lot/address search through the Department of Finance website to see the records for where they live.