If you’ve heard us complain about non-responsive FOIL documents, I thought you’d like to know that we have now received a preliminary response from HPD. They have found 37 pages in response to our request.
Because we have already seen what NYCHA can produce in 175 pages in response to a FOIL request, we are cautiously pessimistic…
But we will share what we learn.
These pages may be of related interest:
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Please write to support the Community Integrated Pest Management Program at Cornell
Check out some notes on the New York Entomological Society's January bed bug seminar
Please help disseminate the NYC Health Department's new bed bug guide:
NYC info: Bed Bugs in New York City
New from the National Center for Healthy Housing, What’s Working for Bed Bug Control in Multifamily Housing: Reconciling best practices with research and the realities of implementation (PDF)
New research on the active spread of bed bugs in buildings, essential reading for policy makers and property managers
Check out the innovative work of the Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force
For property managers: bed bug management contract specifications, Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association.
Recommended article: Bed Bugs: A Systemic Pest Within Society (PDF), Stephen Kells, American Entomologist, 2006
Bed Bugs Are Back: Are We Ready? (PDF) from WoodGreen Community Services, Habitat Services and Public Interest in Toronto
