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Ungrounded outlets in a slum rental. What to do?
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I think it's a legal gap. Presumably it's against the city's regulations for the adapters to be used to plug a three prong into an ungrounded outlet. But it doesn't seem like the landlord has to provide outlets that are compatible with modern appliances.
I'm pretty sure they only make three hole gfci outlets so your best bet is to at least get the first outlet in the circuit with a gfci outlet and the rest either gfci (redundant after the first one) or three prong outlets and they all have to be marked 'no equipment ground'. The other comments about making the landlord do it is probably the best advice. The rentseeker should have just rewired the house if it was remodeled.