Focus turns once again on landlord with troubled history after Albany Park fire guts apartment building, popular brewery, gym
chicago.suntimes.com
"It’s all about a landlord being guilty until they prove themselves innocent, right?" said Gary Carlson.

But the landlord told the Sun-Times he is being falsely accused. Carlson claimed a witness saw the brewery burning before the fire spread to all four floors of his apartment building.

“It’s all about a landlord being guilty until they prove themselves innocent, right?” Carlson said. “As a landlord in the city of Chicago, guilty until you prove yourself innocent instead of the opposite way around. Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor.”

Carlson said he got a message from the daughter of a tenant saying “she saw the Hippo, Hippo whatever it is, burning. And then the fire spread to my building, not the other way around. That’s it.”

He added that the brewery “had the highly flammable materials in there. I don’t blame anybody. But why are they blaming me?”

  • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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    3 years ago

    “There is absolutely no appreciation factor for landlords,” he said. We’re all money-grubbing ass----- to put off all their maintenance, take the money and run. And nothing can be the further from the truth. “

    Carlson said he was told the city may order his building torn down, though to him it looked like it was “perfectly salvageable.”

    :stalin-gun-1:

    • CTHlurker [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Feel bad for me! Demanded the slumlord who lives entirely off the back of the working poor. Quick question; does America have a work-requirement for Section 8 housing, which I think is the name of your public subsidized housing? Or is the work requirement built in, since you can't afford the rent if you aren't working.