Residents of the Wyckoff Gardens Houses say NYCHA is blocking genuine tenant input by accelerating its timetable for finding a builder to construct mixed-income housing there.
No, the Rental Assistance Demonstration project is not a plot to privatize public housing or displace current residents of NYCHA’s Ocean Bay Apartments. But tenants do need to have a…
The Rental Assistance Demonstration involves converting one Queens developing from traditional public housing to voucher funding and, the plan says, freeing up money to pay for back-logged repairs.
The notion of developing new apartments on NYCHA land has divided allies in the fight to save public housing in New York. That polite but passionate disagreement was on display…
In Bill de Blasio’s effort to create a more equal city, the housing authority—a successful Big Government program that now faces existential threats—is the ultimate test flight. And Shola Olatoye…
Initiatives to develop mixed-income housing on NYCHA land and move a substantial number of apartments from public housing to other programs have some advocates concerned. But they have Ritchie Torres’s…
The former NYCHA chairman was vilified for his plan to develop housing-authority land. Now that the de Blasio administration has issued its own infill plan, is it time for another…
NYCHA’s plan to build affordable housing at existing public housing developments has generated skepticism. But an alliance of advocates, resident leaders and elected officials offered qualified support for the proposal.
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