A new public housing rule kicked in this month that requires unemployed residents to do eight hours of community service. Today, tenants protest this much-hated law, which they say stinks…
Hundreds of public housing tenants swarmed a public hearing last week about NYCHA’s five-year plan, which they say is too vague in some parts and wrong in others.
According to sources both inside and outside New York’s public housing system, billions of dollars of maintainence are being put off, and the buildings are really showing it.
Federal law requires the city’s housing authority to demolish safe and clean public housing in Far Rockaway, but it looks like Congress will grant a waiver.
Advocates got a little breathing room in their quest to stop a city housing authority plan to keep the poorest applicants from renting vacant apartments.
In the latest issue of City Limits: How the city’s housing bureaucracy ruined an innovative program designed to allow some public housing to become co-ops for the low-income tenants.