At the Brooklyn complex, 83 tenants voted to join the Public Housing Preservation Trust and another 83 opted to convert to private management under the PACT initiative. A final recount will take place Jan. 8, and if the numbers stand, a runoff vote will be scheduled.
With delayed timelines and ongoing construction, Red Hook residents are still living in limbo as they wait for a $568 million resiliency project to come to life, more than a decade after Sandy slammed the complex.
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.
“Rather than addressing public safety or cost of living concerns, New York City risks backsliding towards the alarmism of criminalizing the poor.”
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
NYC Health + Hospitals says it’s found permanent homes for more than 1,200 of its patients and their families, both through supportive housing placements and in affordable apartments on its own land. The marker comes as the mayor directs all city agencies to examine their property holdings for places to build new housing.
Coney Island Houses residents are the first to choose to stay in traditional public housing since NYCHA began holding these elections last year.
The rate increase, National Grid argues, is necessary for maintaining service as safe and reliable for customers. But environmentalists question adding gas hookups and revamping the system when New York is supposed to be phasing out polluting fossil fuels, as mandated by the state’s landmark climate law.
A Notice of Vote was sent to residents at Hylan Houses this month, making the complex the fifth public housing development asked to vote on the future of their homes. The 30-day voting period is expected to begin on Nov. 13.
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.
“The greatest threat to Windsor Terrace’s character is not new development, but the status quo. If we continue to resist growth, we risk becoming an enclave accessible only to the wealthy, losing the diverse, family-friendly essence that makes our neighborhood special.”
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