article_snippet: To make matter worse, all those buildings are part of a system in which the department is often paying well above neighborhood market rates for apartments.
article_snippet: Investigators range from converted hospitals and schools with on-site social services to single-room occupancy hotels and 'cluster sites:' apartments within buildings that also house private tenants. '
article_snippet: cluster sites:' apartments within buildings that also house private tenants proved particularly deplorable, the report said.
article_snippet: The city pays an average of $2,450 a month for cluster site apartments, while the average rent in some of cluster site apartments neighborhoods is $1,200 a month and lower, the report said.
highlights_snippet: Report also found that The Department of Homeless Services is often paying well above neighborhood market rates for privately-owned apartments .