

Some important reasons for the missing back rent:
Many tenants began withholding rent because they had been dealing for years with unsafe conditions, while others fell behind because they could not afford their monthly payments, according to the tenant union. They may now get a blank slate.
Kuo said tenants dealt with a range of problems in their buildings including caved-in ceilings, heat outages and, at times, darkened hallways after Con Edison cut the common area electricity due to the landlord’s unpaid bills.






Dont worry, he came back the day after his sloth and cowardess became an international news story and handed out bottled water from a pickup truck, instead of coordinating with the state/fed/volunteer orgs to actually help people.
Those dozens of bottle of water surely fixed everything.