The candidates for the fallen assemblyman’s seat must address not just the harassment scandal, but also the broader legacy of money and services he brought back to Bushwick.
Federal support for public housing operating expenses has been lagging costs for a decade. A NYCHA board member said a new approach might shore up funding from Washington.
Though federally funded, NYCHA is in part steered by choices at the municipal level. What public-housing policy choices will New York’s next mayor have to make?
While some agree that the plan has financial merit, others fear the social costs of mixing incomes in NYCHA neighborhoods. The authority’s chairman sees it as a win-win.
A stalled redevelopment left Prospect Plaza vacant for a decade. The new scheme replaces some—if not all—of the public housing, and adds hundreds of affordable units.
After the city rezoned Williamsburg, affordable housing was supposed to be built on the grounds of a NYCHA project there. Seven years later, ground has not been broken.
1934: Depression-era public works money is earmarked for public housing. The New York City Housing Authority is created.
1935: First Houses, the first public housing project in the United States, is…
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