Connecticut rental property owners and landlords have a new tool to help them coordinate their legislative efforts and better their business conditions according to Bob DeCosmo, president of the The Ct Property Owners Alliance Inc.
The Alliance has launched its new website http://www.connecticutpropertyowners.com/
The Alliance is now gearing up for the upcoming Connecticut Legislative session where it intends to advocate for a delay in the State implementing a law scheduled to go into effect in 2011 that will create over 500 more children classified with lead poisoning by definition rather than actuality.
They fear that over 500 more properties will become abandoned in Connecticut after receiving code enforcement notices for lead abatement and in these economic times, Connecticut cities and towns can least afford more blight, property abandonment and slow tax collection rates.
The Alliance realizes that lead poisoning is a concern at high levels but fears that at such low levels that the State intends to go with this change and given the fact that there is no medical treatment or program other than basic nutrition and house-cleaning skills to help children at these low levels, the timing is wrong.
The Alliance will ask the legislature for a delay until the year 2015 for the law to go into effect lowering the abatement standard to 10 ug/dl for code enforcement. By then it hopes that there will be fewer cases of lead poisoning anyway as rates have been declining on there own for many years now.
The group also reasons that lead is everywhere in the environment, to take this putative approach to affordable housing is unfair and these children already have these lead levels in their blood currently. However what will be different next year is 500 property owners may be forced out of business in many cases by these putative and expensive abatement orders!
