Ed Reed for the Office of Mayor Bill de Blasio
Mayor Bill de Blasio with Shola Olatoye who was appointed NYCHA Chairperson on Saturday, February 8, 2014 at Lincoln Houses Senior Center in Harlem.
At a weekend forum, officials of the cash-strapped housing authority convinced some resident leaders that they were making real progress on repairs. Questions remain about NYCHA’s deeper issues.
Two years after the superstorm, we sent the reporter who covered Brooklyn’s aftermath back to talk to the same people she met when debris and doubt littered the coast.
The hopefuls offer different menus of zoning schemes, investment plans, tax breaks and more to try to build and preserve tens of thousands of units during the next decade.
This city in a city—the nation’s oldest and largest public housing system—faces operating shortfalls and a huge list of capital needs. How can City Hall protect this resource?
At a weekend forum the Democrats running for mayor all disparaged a plan to build market-rate housing on NYCHA land.
Though federally funded, NYCHA is in part steered by choices at the municipal level. What public-housing policy choices will New York’s next mayor have to make?
While some agree that the plan has financial merit, others fear the social costs of mixing incomes in NYCHA neighborhoods. The authority’s chairman sees it as a win-win.
A forum on public health drew only four of the 10 people now in the race for mayor. Those who did come put unique spins on similar ideas.
FEMA. Occupy. SBA. The Brooklyn Recovery Fund. Red Cross. Rapid Repairs. Here are some quick facts about ways to get help after Hurricane Sandy.
Some residents say they’ve gotten help from FEMA and the mayor’s office. But others wonder why disaster food stamps and other aid haven’t arrived.
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