WASHINGTONVILLE – State Assemblyman James Skoufis (D, Woodbury) wants banks to clean up their acts, and their foreclosed upon properties, by not letting them get run down.
Those vacant “zombie” properties are often abandoned for long periods of time before their status is resolved by a new sale.
Skoufis stood in front of a “zombie” home in Washingtonville
on Wednesday, showing his new “bank shaming” signs urging
the institutions to keep the properties in good shape.
“We will be doing this for the coming months,” he said. “We anticipate we will be putting a lot of signs out in a lot of communities to raise awareness on this issue and hopefully get these banks to move their feet a little faster.”
Skoufis said to allow foreclosed on properties to decay, “these
big banks are dragging down property values and inviting crime into neighborhoods.”
Skoufis: “… banks are dragging down property values …”
Skoufis’s bank “shaming” signs
