The senior center is getting new life after a 25-year closure, and will be named after a longtime tenant association president who’s held the role for 33 years and has…
Thousands of public housing residents, community and religious leaders gathered for an “accountability assembly,” to press Mayor Zohran Mamdani to investigate conditions in NYCHA developments that have converted into public-private…
The Public Housing Preservation Trust, created in 2022, announced the closing of a $607 million deal to renovate over 1,000 apartments at Brooklyn’s Nostrand Houses. It’s the first project financed…
Residents in a senior-only building in Chelsea allege they are being harassed by the public housing authority and its private management partners. It’s the latest legal challenge in a years-long…
NYCHA is moving ahead with plans to rehabilitate a unique cluster of Manhattan brownstones, many of which are afforded landmark protection status, by converting the apartments to private management.
The new “Critical Repair Initiative” will be modeled after the Mold and Leaks Ombudsperson Call Center, which residents say has added an extra layer of accountability and coordination to NYCHA’s…
“Many have claimed they can subvert the profit-seeking instincts of the development industry,” the author writes. “Once private financial interests are invited into public spaces, sooner or later, their basic…
In several Congressional races across the city, candidates’ stances on how best to continue funding, maintaining and improving conditions at the city’s more than 300 public housing developments have become…
Inspections by the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development are one of the only tools NYCHA tenants have for securing overdue repairs. But tenants and legal advocates say scheduling…
The events will be a chance for public housing residents—some of whom felt left out by Mamdani’s earlier ‘Rental Ripoff’ hearings—to provide direct feedback and share concerns with city leaders.