City Hall’s latest lefty push to fast-track tenant repairs through housing court ignores landlords, who are forced to file up to 120,000 claims annually over unpaid rents and face yearslong eviction delays, critics say.

The Mamdani administration last week announced a “Housing Court Fast Track” plan to accelerate its cases against building owners involving such issues as vacate orders, hazardous conditions and elevator outages, citing monthslong backlogs in the court system.

But the fast-track directive only deals with one side of the equation, leaving landlords still grappling with tens of thousands of unpaid rent cases against their tenants — legal procedures that account for nearly 80% of all housing court proceedings in the five boroughs.

“It’s almost like, you know, you’ve got an HOV lane for the tenants … and you’ve got the traffic backed up for miles for the owners,” said landlord lawyer Deborah Riegel of Rosenberg & Estis.  

Valentina Gojcaj, a property manager at Onesource, said it’s all by design, noting democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s history of anti-landlord rhetoric.

“I think that’s part of his agenda — I mean, he’s made it clear he doesn’t believe in private ownership,” Gojcaj told The Post.

She cited one particular debacle for her employer in which a tenant installed an illegal washing machine in one of its Bronx apartment complexes that crashed through the ceiling into the apartment below, sending the unit’s downstairs neighbor to the emergency room. 

As of this month, that tenant owes approximately $30,000 in arrears and remains in her apartment with the illegal washing machine, Gojcaj claimed, despite multiple attempts to litigate the violations in housing court. 

The mayor’s newly minted fast-track plan ensures city-initiated claims involving repairs that landlords are required to make according to the Housing and Preservation Department will have a scheduled court appearance within five days or less of filing.

About 10,000 to 15,000 HP cases are filed in housing court yearly, with a current average 10- to 20-day appearance wait time.

By contrast, landlords file as many as 120,000 unpaid rent cases yearly, and they can take up to 50 days for a first appearance.

Gojcaj said her firm has multiple active cases in housing court – some of which have been going on for more than years – including involving one tenant who hasn’t paid rent since 2022, owing the company over $71,000 in back rent. 

“She’s not getting evicted because the judge won’t let us issue a warrant, which by the way takes six months to get processed,” Gojcaj said.

As for the washing-machine outrage, “We have so many cases where this happens, and then the tenants just leave, leave an owner with, you know, $60,000 or $70,000 …. we have cases where tenants have left owing over $100,000 in rent. There’s no recourse,” she said. 

Riegel said the backlogs in housing court exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic when landlords were temporarily barred from filing eviction notices until January 2022. 

The moratorium – which did not include HP violation cases – caused the backlog of housing court appearances to stretch from an average of up to six months to 15 months or more. 

“Even pre-COVID housing court was not great, but it wasn’t the delays that we were at now,” said Ann Korchak, president of the Small Property Owners of New York. 

Korchak argued that the city already has many tools available to it to deal with negligent landlords – and worries the new program will further delay property owners from collecting unpaid rent. 

“Even if just one just of one of tenants is not paying for two or three or six months – which not is uncommon — (it) can really really sink the finances of your building,” she said.

The mayor’s office did not respond to a Post request for comment.