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The Bible reading during the Mass near the empty NYCHA complex was apropos. “Like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building upon it,” the passage…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jan 2009

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Chapter 3: Suddenly, No One Wanted to Pay for Public Housing

For the past six years the funding from the federal government has fallen far short time and again. And the city and state have also stopped their annual support for…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jan 2009

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Chapter 2: The Life and Times of Public Housing

The trouble began for public housing when projects around the country started to struggle as financial problems and design flaws made it harder to serve an increasingly needy population.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jan 2009

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Chapter 1: Public Housing's Last Stand

New York City is where public housing started. It is where most public housing was built. And today, it is where the concept of public housing in America is making…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jan 2009

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Time for Hardball: Public Housing Politics

Organizers who target public housing have one thing going for them: The density of public housing makes it easy to reach a lot of potential voters fast—and then to follow…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jan 2009

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Seeing Green: NYCHA Aims to Cut Carbon, and Costs

Starved for cash to maintain, let alone repair, its aging buildings, NYCHA is looking to spend money to save money—putting $400 million toward energy efficiencies.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jan 2009

Economy Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Capital Ideas: Rebuilding Public Housing, Under Pressure

Getting the money is only one problem facing NYCHA’s capital program: Another is spending that money wisely.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jan 2009

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Project Patrol: Crime in Public Housing, Past and Present

In 1989, the Housing Police counted 182 murders in the projects. The number of murders in public housing had risen five times as fast as the city total. That increase…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Dec 2008

Economy Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Audit: NYCHA Capital Program in Trouble

An internal report by the inspector general over the Housing Authority says management lapses and cost overruns will severely curtail plans to repair the city’s aging stock of public housing.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Dec 2008

Economy Housing and Homelessness Justice NYCHA

The City's Latest Hirings and Retirings

New faces at public agencies and private groups across the city, as inimitable organizer John Raskin moves on, and labor leader Roger Toussaint moves up.

ByAlex Cotton 0Comments

Chapter 4: High Hopes, Steep Challenges for NYCHA

Chapter 3: Suddenly, No One Wanted to Pay for Public Housing

Chapter 2: The Life and Times of Public Housing

Chapter 1: Public Housing's Last Stand

Time for Hardball: Public Housing Politics

Seeing Green: NYCHA Aims to Cut Carbon, and Costs

Capital Ideas: Rebuilding Public Housing, Under Pressure

Project Patrol: Crime in Public Housing, Past and Present

Audit: NYCHA Capital Program in Trouble

The City's Latest Hirings and Retirings

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