They also boast a new class of owners who cannot afford to maintain their properties.
Also, landlords may increasingly find that they must install backup generators to maintain their properties' marketability.
"We really need the banks to inspect and maintain their properties on their own," Ms. Lin said.
Landlords there often do not properly maintain their properties or provide things like trash cans with covers".
The leaseholders who live in these homes not only fund the construction of their homes in full, they also bear the cost of maintaining their properties.
They say new, young residents play loud music and let their children roam while many longtime homeowners have died or grown too old to maintain their properties.
It did not address the possible failings of the building's landlords, including the Department of Education and the School Construction Authority, in maintaining their properties and correcting deficiencies.
Haaretz reported that Israeli Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein has now decided on criteria for barring West Bank Palestinians from maintaining their properties in Jerusalem.
But local government officials and community activists say the government-backed companies could do more to maintain their properties and keep neighborhoods from falling into decline.
Whether or not their payment levels are frozen, borrowers with loans that are greater than the values of their homes will have few incentives to keep paying their mortgages or to maintain their properties.
