George Delis, district manager of Community Board 1 and an immigrant from the area around Salonika, said, "I get complaints from Greeks that the streets are dirtier, the properties not as well kept.
It can make a condo resident accuse a neighbor of being so dirty that property values have fallen, and a landlord worry that it will be impossible to find a new tenant.
"People call it 'reverse graffiti,' " he says, "but I prefer something less sinister: 'clean tagging' or 'grime writing.' " Curtis, a k a Moose, selectively scrubs dirty, derelict city property (tunnel walls, sidewalks) so that words and images are formed by the cleaned bits.
Energy companies have been allowed to run roughshod over communities, leaving contaminated drinking water, dirty air, gutted property values, and greater earthquake risk in their wake.
Some of those people simply disappeared, leaving the properties distressingly dirty and in disrepair.
The city also raised the stakes for people who dispose of trash improperly or whose properties are dirty, particularly landlords who don't provide efficient Dumpsters or enough trash cans.
The committee heard evidence about a military family who described how they had returned from overseas to their allocated house to find the property was dirty and poorly maintained.
Today, we've seen good progress on stemming the flow of dirty money into UK property and more international cooperation on tackling corruption, but the biggest piece of the puzzle is still missing – the tax havens must open up".
She has long been accused of using dirty tactics to acquire property and to have leveraged her husband's power to enrich herself.
