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The city is touting its successes of pressuring landlords of troubled properties to either make repairs or relinquish ownership, vowing not to let up on a campaign aimed at improving tenant living conditions and one that doesn’t shy away from naming names of problem landlords.

“We want to send a very strong message to landlords in the city,” Hartford Mayor Arunan Arulampalam said, in a press conference in front of a vacant, blighted building in the city’s South End. “If you refuse to take care of your property, if you are willing to profit off neglect, we are going to come after you.”

In the year since the city released its first list of problem landlords, Arulampalam said 93% of the nearly 900 apartments in multiple buildings controlled

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