NYCHA’s new strategy to pay for repairs at 110,000 public housing units prioritizes finances and not tenants’ best interests, Justice For All Coalition member Kristen Hackett argues.
With 62,000 units already effectively moving off the authority’s books under NYCHA 2.0, this new ‘Blueprint for Change’ addresses NYCHA’s other 110,000 apartments—which together need a $25 billion repair job.
‘As we know, the pandemic hit New York extremely hard; and yet unevenly. NYCHA tenants, including those in Astoria, Queensbridge, Ravenswood and Woodside Houses, are among the hardest hit.’
De Blasio’s executive budget proposes large shifts in capital funding for his 300,000-unit housing plan—essentially backloading hundreds of millions in capital expenditures to future years, most of which fall beyond…
NYCHA says it plans to aggressively clean their developments and get information to their tenants about social distancing and preventive methods through email, text, tenant associations, robo-calling and multilingual flyers.…
