Tenants in New York public housing put faith in new Resident Advisory Boards to represent their concerns, but it looks like the same old story.

According to sources both inside and outside New York’s public housing system, billions of dollars of maintainence are being put off, and the buildings are really showing it.

Federal law requires the city’s housing authority to demolish safe and clean public housing in Far Rockaway, but it looks like Congress will grant a waiver.