BUFFALO, N.Y. — Nearly 40 local community organizations are questioning whether City Hall is fully complying with a more than 3-year-old program that was designed, in part, to help combat lead poisoning in city housing. They’re giving the city a month to prove that inspectors have been fully implementing the program.
Partnership for the Public Good addressed a letter to Mayor Byron Brown and Catherine Amdur, commissioner of the Department of Permits and Inspections, demanding enforcement of the Proactive Rental Inspections Program, which was unanimously passed and enacted by the Common Council in November 2020.
“The constitutional rights of the most vulnerable residents of the City are being violated by the City of Buffalo given its continuing failure to enforce the law,” read a part of the letter, which representatives of the local organizations hand delivered to city officials Tuesday morning.