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Staff at the center, many of whom also live in NYCHA housing, say they keep the door to the mold-filled closet closed as much as possible. They say they’ve filed…

ByBella Week 3Comments

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Dec 2025

Featured Government Health Housing and Homelessness Justice NYCHA Profiles

Cameras or Community: What Keeps Harlem Safe?

New York’s Big Apple Connect program offers free Wi-Fi in public housing—and new pathways for police access to NYCHA cameras. In Harlem, youth advocates say real safety for young people…

ByMax Rykov 7Comments

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Dec 2025

Featured Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations NYCHA

Puerto Rican Families in New York’s Public Housing Worry Privatization Will Cause Displacement

New York City’s public housing authority has turned thousands of apartments over to private management. While PACT may currently be the most effective way to fund renovations quickly, many tenants…

ByTareq Saghie 16Comments

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Sep 2025

Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development NYCHA Opinion

Opinion: The David vs. Goliath Battle Over Public Land in Chelsea

“Anyone concerned about the unchecked power of private companies to orchestrate sweeping change in our communities should pay close attention.”

ByStacy Torres 4Comments

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Apr 2025

Government Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Opinion Politics

Opinion: This Fair Housing Month, Let’s Protect Public Housing From HUD Cuts

“We cannot allow proposed cuts to HUD and Section 8 to devastate our communities. These aren’t abstract budget items—they represent the homes and futures of real people we work with…

ByAlicka Ampry-Samuel

ByJuanita O. Lewis 0Comments

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Apr 2025

Featured Housing and Homelessness Immigration NYCHA

HUD Struck a Data-Sharing Agreement With Immigration Enforcement. What Does it Mean for NYC?

According to advocates who spoke with City Limits, the memorandum is yet another effort by the Trump administration to target immigrants and doesn’t constitute a basis for eviction.

ByDaniel Parra 15Comments

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Feb 2025

Government Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Why Is It So Hard To Eradicate Mold at NYCHA?

Despite being under court order to remediate it, mold remains a persistent problem for NYCHA, which points to its aging infrastructure and a climbing number of physical needs across its…

ByTatyana Turner 0Comments

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Jan 2025

Housing and Homelessness Meet Your Tenant Leader Profiles

Meet Your Tenant Leader: Miguel Acevedo, NYCHA’s Fulton Houses

“Now this community is gentrified with condominiums that are coming up from all over…We’re the forgotten ones,” said Miguel Acevedo, the tenant association president at NYCHA’s Fulton Houses for the…

ByTatyana Turner 0Comments

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Jan 2025

ARTS and CULTURE Climate and Environment Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

New Exhibit Explores NYCHA’s Open Spaces, Which Once Made Neighbors Jealous

“Living in the Shade” opened last week in a Downtown Brooklyn gallery, and will be on view through Feb. 27 before moving to LaGuardia Community College.

ByLauren Hakimi 1Comment

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Dec 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Vote at NYCHA’s Hylan Houses Lands in a Tie

At the Brooklyn complex, 83 tenants voted to join the Public Housing Preservation Trust and another 83 opted to convert to private management under the PACT initiative. A final recount…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

NYCHA Has Ignored Mold at This Brooklyn After-School Center for a Year, Staffers Say