Unless you own the building, you are not obligated to take care of this, the landlord is.
If they aren't doing that, report them to the city.
Good looking out for your neighbors, but don't let your landlord neglect shit.
Edit:
In the United States, the Americans with Disabilities act requires landlords to provide their tenants with a habitable place to live (because that's what they're paying for).
Additionally, if anyone slips and falls on a property, the owner is legally liable. Those are facts: It doesn't matter how you feel about them, they are what they are.
Downvoting the person informing you won't change anything.
Downvote away if it makes you feel better, but if you're a landlord, maintain your fucking property and take care of your people! Don't be a piece of shit slumlord.
Can definitely be part of the rent contract though
That's gotta be a local thing. I have a hard time seeing landlord snow removal making it into federal law (assuming you're American).
If a disabled person lives there, then (in the US) landlords are legally obligated to provide the disabled renter with a habitable living space under the Americans with Disabilities act, which is federal.
It's also worth pointing out, that anywhere in the US, if a person slips and falls on your property you (but mostly your insurance company probably) are responsible. So the landlord is open to additional liability there even if there are no local laws regarding snow removal simply because they are the owner of the property.
On the one hand, salt destroys cars, which is based. On the other hand, salt destroying cars means more cars get bought, which is cringe. On the third hand, salt makes it easier to walk, which is based. On the fourth hand, salt is notoriously bad for the environment (nobody ever threatened to beet juice someone's fields, you know) which is hella cringe.
I guess what I'm saying is skip the salt, use beet juice, and lay out spike strips on the road
Please done just put salt down without shoveling. It makes piles of slushy salt that at best are a mess, but likely will re-freeze into an uneven hazard. It’s also really hard on dog’s paws. An able bodied guy should be able to use a shovel.
I swear 1/2 the frozen mass outside right now is a mix of various salts of sodium, potassium, and magnesium. Do all cities suck at snow plowing?
I use dog friendly salt.
You're a good guy OP but someone in my city is being sued by their landlord specifically for doing what your post is about and supposedly ruining the pavement, so make sure to cover person #1 before others!
I wonder how those laws handle disabled people who can't shovel snow and don't have someone to do it for them. Expect them to hire somebody to do it? The disabled are generally not well off financially, so that's not really a solution.
Knowing how much our system fucks over disabled people in other ways I'm going to guess that they're still required to do it, so they either have to hire someone or do it themselves.
I'm sure you're right.
They go on apps like NextDoor or Facebook communities pages and beg for help.
I highly doubt many are part of those groups.
Unfortunately in a lot of places “aging in place” isn’t a thing and the only housing stock is single family homes.
Ideally you could stay in your neighborhood and change your housing to accomodate your situation.
Well, the city still expects lawns to be mowed even if you're disabled here, so I'd assume they expect the same of snow. But we don't get much snow since I've moved in with my husband who has cerebral palsy. With the lawn, they send a letter first saying fix it. You fix it, call them, and it's done. I'd think the same with snow, assuming the snow stuck around so long they had time to send a letter.
I don't have a sidewalk in front of my home but where I work is on a walkable urban street. Clearing the sidewalk when it snows is such an enjoyable thing to do I look forward to it. Pedestrians walking by sometimes say thanks, the woman across the street brought me coffee once. Her husband uses the bus stop so I always clean the bench. Technically I'm getting paid but I do much more than I'm obligated to, sometimes I'll clear a couple driveway skirts.
Apparently the guy in the meme is notorious for treating their employees like absolute shit.
He serves "ok" quality steaks, wraps them in gold leaf and upcharges thousands of dollars. His restaurant is the equivalent of the "I Am Rich" app. One critic called the whole thing dinner theater. More money than sense is required to dine there.
