AEP

The Alternative Enforcement Program is the housing agency's escalation track for the most distressed multifamily buildings: periodic rounds designate buildings by the volume and severity of open housing-code violations, subjecting them to comprehensive inspections, orders addressing root-cause conditions, and city-performed repairs billed to the owner with lien force. Program fees accrue alongside, and discharge requires meeting published criteria — substantial correction plus payment — rather than waiting.

In records analysis, AEP designation is among the loudest distress markers available: a formal, criteria-driven finding that a building sits among the city's worst-maintained. Its history persists usefully after discharge, documenting an era of the building's operation that diligence should reconcile with the present.