Responding to a rash of accidents, the City Council last year changed the law to put more responsibility on landlords.

There is no point in putting regulations on landlords that they cannot meet.

Foreclosures on landlords often lead to eviction of their tenants.

The city is not exempt from the constraints imposed on other landlords.

The code was changed to put the burden on landlords to determine where those children lived.

It can also seek heavy fines on landlords who discriminate.

But the law is already being criticized as too easy on landlords.

In such a critical health matter, the burden should be on landlords to demonstrate the safety of their premises.

The program has political appeal because it relies on private landlords in an era when privatization is so popular.

Also, it may have seen to have been an attack on landlords, traditional Tory voters.