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.
NYCHA says an extensive visioning process among residents shaped a plan to build new housing developments in the Bronx and Brooklyn. But Tenant Association leaders feel their communities’ feelings weren’t…
From 2007 through 2014, nearly 5,000 people were “permanently excluded” from NYCHA because of an arrest—not necessarily a conviction—on or near NYCHA property.
Poor facilities have discouraged NYCHA residents from recycling for years. While some tenants took matters into their own hands and the de Blasio administration promises a better approach, one environmental…
Facing a growing fiscal crisis and crumbling infrastructure, City Hall has called for building affordable housing—and, in some cases, market-rate apartments—on Housing Authority land as part of a broad strategy…
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