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New York’s public housing has suffered years of federal divestment, putting its future viability in doubt. When a team of urban designers explored the Lower East Side projects’ open spaces,…

ByRoy Strickland 0Comments

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Aug 2009

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Amid Housing Complaints, Is The Forecast Improving?

A stimulus funding influx, the possibility of new jobs, and heartier support from officials comes as public housing residents call attention to widespread poor living conditions.

ByKaren Loew 0Comments

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Jul 2009

ARTS and CULTURE Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

The City's Latest Hirings and Retirings

A new state education leader takes the helm, as more New Yorkers head to Washington and the Pratt Center gets a new director.

ByNekoro Gomes 0Comments

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Feb 2009

Economy Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Working For A Safer Spring In Brownsville

In an area where shootings and deaths are too common, a coalition has formed to draw attention to the problem, and find solutions.

ByNekoro Gomes 0Comments

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Jan 2009

Economy Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

CITY LIMITS INVESTIGATES: PUBLIC HOUSING'S STRUGGLE

The new issue of ‘CLI’ looks at the complicated past, troubled present and uncertain future of the nation’s oldest and largest system of public housing.

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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Jan 2009

Economy Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Chapter 4: High Hopes, Steep Challenges for NYCHA

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

Saving Public Housing By Building Anew

Amid Housing Complaints, Is The Forecast Improving?

The City's Latest Hirings and Retirings

Working For A Safer Spring In Brownsville

CITY LIMITS INVESTIGATES: PUBLIC HOUSING'S STRUGGLE

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

Chapter 4: High Hopes, Steep Challenges for NYCHA

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