Ritchie Torres credits the mayor for taking unprecedented steps to shore up the fiscally challenged public housing authority. But he feels that NYCHA’s untapped political power must be harnessed to…
How can public housing reach fiscal stability despite resident skepticism to its development plans? One housing expert says the key is to transform the whole system and the process that…
Organizations that work on homelessness generally applauded the mayor’s plan and the process behind it. But they are pushing the administration to make deeper policy changes in three key areas.
Stakeholder committees are forming at Wyckoff Gardens and Holmes Towers, the first two developments selected for new construction to create housing that’s 50 percent affordable on NYCHA territory.
The Authority revealed that its financial picture is worse than expected, in large part because it has revised downward its projections of savings and new revenue from the NextGen plan.
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.
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