Bill de Blasio, who owns $2.3 million in Brooklyn real estate, is violating the city’s housing rules, The Post has found.
The Democrat mayoral candidate has not registered his $1.1 million, two-unit Brooklyn rental property with the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development as required by law. He also failed to report the rental income he receives in his annual financial-disclosure filing.
Owners of buildings with one or two units must register annually with HPD if neither the owner nor any of his family members live there.
The city’s Administrative Code requires city officials to disclose outside income of more than $1,000 a year, including revenue from rent.
De Blasio, who has been the city’s public advocate since 2010 and before that served in City Council, has not disclosed any rental income on filings dating back to 2007, according to records from the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board.
“He has one set of standards for himself and another for everyone else,” said a spokeswoman for Republican rival Joe Lhota’s campaign. “The level of corruption in New York is alarming, and the last thing we need is a mayor who is skirting ethics rules and hiding income. This is exactly what drives people crazy about politicians.”
De Blasio bought the rental property in 2004 with his wife, Chirlane McCray, and his mom, Maria Wilhelm. They paid $612,500 for the row house at 384 11th St., built around 1901. It is on the same Park Slope street where the couple lives with their two children.
Wilhelm, who was disabled, lived on the first floor of the two-family house, which was outfitted with a wheelchair ramp, according to John Hatheway, the architect on the project, who said he also worked on the kitchen.
Hatheway said the house was covered with asphalt shingles. He called it the “ugliest house on the block.” The shingles were removed to expose the original wood siding, he said.
City records show the renovation work cost about $40,000.
Wilhelm died in 2007, and de Blasio has rented out both units, public records show. The second-floor, one-bedroom, apartment is currently available for $2,200 a month. It is advertised as having stainless-steel appliances, granite counters, upgraded kitchen cabinets and hardwood floors.
De Blasio’s campaign spokesman, Wiley Norvell, claimed the building doesn’t make a profit.
“He declares the property as an asset on his filing, but the property has a negative income when you add up the depression of water and upkeep,” Norvell said.
Crain’s reported that de Blasio’s 2011 tax return showed $47,500 in rental income and $62,200 in deductions for the property.
A spokesman for the Conflicts of Interest Board said the agency could not comment on an official’s financial-disclosure report or whether it would take action against de Blasio.