As HUD secretary in the 1990s, Andrew Cuomo approved the demolition of tens of thousands of public-housing units around the country. Results for tenants were mixed.
Citywide Council of Presidents chair Danny Barber has sued to get an independent monitor appointed to oversee NYCHA. But as he tells the Max & Murphy podcast, what his organization…
PLAs are certainly not the only solution, but they have a demonstrated record of meeting cost, quality, and scheduling challenges on the overwhelming majority of public building projects where they…
When implementing a design-build system, Governor Cuomo simply cannot tie that to a project labor agreement as a means to appease his politically-connected friends.
Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen has fired back at Gov. Cuomo’s assertion that ‘It doesn’t matter how much money you pour into NYCHA, when NYCHA is incompetent to literally spend the…
Many of the defining policy storylines of today’s New York are, in one or more ways, on the plate of the Fifth Avenue Committee’s executive director, who is also on…
State payments to NYCHA have soared over the past couple years. But the vast majority of that money is actually Sandy recovery funding from the federal government, not from Albany’s…
In January, HUD delayed a federal rule requiring cities and states to assess whether their policies made housing segregation better or worse. But New York is going ahead with its…
The de Blasio administration has dedicated money to build a bigger facility so DSNY doesn’t have to use Queens streets to park the trucks that won’t fit in an aging…
