12/07/2018  旧金山的房价高不可攀，而且爆发房屋短缺的危机，因此市政府兴建了不少可负担房屋(affordable housing)的公寓单位，提供给中低收入的家庭，让他们也可以有一居所。但市府律师夏雷拉(Dennis Herrera)发现，可负担房屋被人取巧，用作图利，于是展开打击行动。他6日起诉一对旧金山夫妇，这对夫妇将申请到的一个可负担单位出租图利，另一方面他们自己却住在硅谷一栋280万元的大房子。 被起诉的夫妇是诺瓦克(Caroline Novak)和洛斯文(Igor Lotvvin)；起诉书说，夫妇俩违法取得位于比奥街300号街段的一个可负担单位，又违法将单位出租；他们不住在这个单位，却住在红木城高档社区翡翠山(Emerald Hills)一栋280万元的大房子里。 湾区CBS电视在翡翠山找到诺瓦克，记者当面问她，是否住在翡翠山的大房子里？记者解释说，因为诺瓦克在旧金山申请了可负担房屋，按照规定，她应该住在单位里，而不是住在翡翠山。诺瓦克回答说：“我住在旧金山那个单位。” 记者追问：“那么，为什么你会在翡翠山这里？”她回答说：“我只是在这里住几天。” 夏雷拉说，旧金山爆发前所未有的房屋危机，这个城市的可负担房屋计画，不能被人用来图利；“这对夫妇一直保留可负担的单位，拿来出租，作长期投资和图利，这种情况不能再存在。 起诉讼书还说，诺瓦克1999年申请可负担房屋时，隐瞒事实，说她没有买房，但她当时已在圣马刁市拥有一栋房子。 除了将可负担单位出租，起诉书还说，诺瓦克夫妇利用这个单位，向银行申请了150万元的贷款。 起诉书说，诺瓦克夫妇自2015年起，就住在红木城的翡翠山，没有住在旧金山的单位。 夏雷拉的目的是，可负担房屋必须由符合资格的人居住；至今为止，他已调查了22个滥用可负担房屋的个案。 12/07/2018 SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a lawsuit against a Bay Area couple, accusing them of illegally taking advantage of the city’s affordable housing program. The lawsuit claims Caroline Novak and Igor Lotsvin illegally obtained an affordable studio unit on the 300 block of Beale Street and illegally rented it out, while they lived in a $2.8 million home in the exclusive Redwood City neighborhood of Emerald Hills. “The entire purchase was predicated on a lie. She lied not only on her initial application saying that she didn’t own property but she continued with a series of lies over the years,” spokesperson for the City Attorney’s office John Cote said. “Basically we wanted to understand how the system works for you guys, because we have heard that you are supposed to live in the unit,” KPIX 5 said to her. Novak responded: “I do live there.” KPIX 5: “So this is not your house?” Novak: “I am just staying here, for a couple days.” “The fact that you were able to talk to her in her driveway was beneficial and shows she was in fact living in this house,” said Cote.  “San Francisco is grappling with an unprecedented housing crisis,” Herrera said in a statement. “The City’s affordable housing program is not an investment scheme to be manipulated by would-be real estate moguls looking to profit off the housing crisis.” “It’s unconscionable that this couple would cheat an eligible San Franciscan out of an affordable home, just so they can keep an investment property and a pied-à-terre,” the city attorney went on to say. “Those days are over.” The lawsuit alleges that Novak lied on her affordable housing application back in 1999, saying she did not already own a property, when she owned a home in San Mateo. Along with illegal renting of the unit, Novak and Lotsvin are also accused of leveraging the unit as security for more than $1.5 million in loans and lines of credit. The lawsuit claims they have lived in Redwood City since 2015. Herrera is seeking to require the couple to sell the property to a qualified owner, along with civil penalties. The city attorney’s office said this is the 22nd case so far in Herrera’s investigation into affordable housing fraud.   APLUS教学中心 | 一对一辅导服务中心 | 申请咨询顾问中心 |    Principal,  Tel: (301)906-6889; (240)912-6290 Licensed in MD, VA, DC, PA WeChat ID: sunnychenyuqing NMLS # 1220187 President, Principal Loan Consultant, Leader Funding, Inc.  电话: (240) 784-6645 Rockville, MD Phone: 301-366-3497 |
