Jamie Towers residents paying 40% higher monthly charges under “weak” state oversight

Tensions are mounting at the Jamie Towers cooperative in the Castle Hill neighborhood, where shareholders have faced steep increases in their monthly maintenance charges while allegedly living amid hazardous conditions. 
Starting May 1, residents at Jamie Towers were hit with a 40.4% per-room increase — on the heels of a 15.6% increase in 2023.
Jamie Towers, a Mitchell-Lama co-op with 620 units housing 60% senior citizens, is one of the state’s many struggling affordable housing