Adi Talwar
Homes along Ridgewood Avenue and Cleveland Street in Brooklyn. The city launched a basement/cellar conversion pilot program in the area in 2019.
“Despite the ambitions of the New Efficiency: New York program, its reach in New York City is limited…households living in small residential buildings are consistently excluded from funding allocation, accounting for only 7 percent of all state home retrofits since 2010.”
La gobernadora Kathy Hochul firmó recientemente un proyecto de ley que impulsa la agilización de los tiempos de restablecimiento de los “servicios vitales” en los apartamentos de vivienda pública de la Autoridad de la Vivienda de la ciudad de Nueva York (NYCHA por sus siglas en inglés), incluido el gas.
New York City is responding to more reports of housing code violations that threaten the health and safety of New Yorkers, but not every repair is an easy fix. Violations are highly concentrated in a few Bronx and Brooklyn neighborhoods.
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