Jarrett Murphy
First Houses, on the Lower East Side, is where public housing began in the United States.
The city’s public housing agency wants rules relaxed to allow creative budgeting. But advocates for residents want stronger assurances that financial flexibility won’t come at the cost of tenant rights.
Tenants may for the first time experience a code enforcement system that rewards their organizing efforts with lasting improvements in their buildings and their lives.
“It doesn’t feel good to see your own brother featured in the news as the year’s worst landlord. It would feel even worse to be doing nothing about it.”
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