Greens collected at least $3.5M in public money last year for crummy CNY apartments
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Syracuse, N.Y. The parent company that owns the Skyline Apartments raked in at least $3.5 million in taxpayer money last year, even while tenants, code inspectors and housing officials have complained about the unsafe and unclean condition of their buildings.
Across 10 buildings in Syracuse and one in DeWitt, Green National owned by Tim and Troy Green collected millions of dollars in federal subsidies paid to low-income tenants and people who were formerly homeless or are recovering from drug or mental health problems.
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Not just the Skyline: While tenants suffer across Syracuse, the Greens have a bigger plan
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Syracuse, N.Y. Even the mail carrier won’t go to the Vincent Apartments.
It’s just not safe there, the U.S. Postal Service says. There’s no lighting in the mailroom. People often sleep there. Its floor is sometimes splashed with human feces. Thieves steal the mail.
The Vincent is one of 11 Central New York housing complexes owned by Green National, the real estate firm of prominent former football player Tim Green and his son, Troy Green.
The company has found itself in the crosshairs of Syracuse City Hall, police and county housing officials recently for the worsening conditions at the Skyline Apartment complex, where an elderly woman was found murdered in her apartment.
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There are two worlds in Angel Gonzalez’s city.
In one, new buildings rise from freshly paved asphalt, a collection of luxury student apartment complexes attracted to the money that flows from the whiter, wealthier enclaves near Syracuse University’s campus. Here, the university’s student population stretches toward the city’s center, where the highest estimated concentration of 19 to 24-year-old Syracuse residents live.
In the other world, development in mostly family-occupied neighborhoods, such as Gonzalez’s in the city’s Westside, has stagnated due to limited economic and housing opportunities.