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While Many NYCHA Residents Remain Skeptical of Private Management, This Red Hook Tenant Leader Sees An Opportunity

NYCHA told City Limits that it anticipates moving forward with the Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) program at Red Hook West. Tenant Association leader Karen Blondel hopes to leverage the…

ByTareq Saghie 0Comments

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Dec 2025

Featured Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development News Profiles

These East Harlem Tenants Staged a Rent Strike—And Won

Tenants in five East Harlem buildings won half a million dollars in back rent and repairs, in a settlement with their landlord over poor housing conditions. They now hope other…

ByPatrick Spauster 4Comments

07

Nov 2024

Housing and Homelessness Meet Your Tenant Leader NYCHA Profiles

Meet Your Tenant Leader: Cynthia Tibbs, NYCHA’s West Side Urban Renewal Brownstones

Tibbs is the leader of one of 218 active resident associations across the city’s public housing system, according to NYCHA, where she’s worked to install new intercoms, host community events…

ByTatyana Turner 1Comment

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Jul 2024

Health Housing and Homelessness In Depth

Despite New Owner’s Promised Upgrades, ‘100% Affordable’ Atlantic Yards Building Endures Hot Water Outages, Broken Door, Even Bees

Only after a local councilmember’s push did landlord Avanath meet with the tenant group at 38 Sixth Ave., but progress has come slowly, and tenants scorned a proposed partial rent…

ByNorman Oder 3Comments

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Mar 2024

Health Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

From the Archives: Fighting to Fix the Red Hook Houses, 1994

“We have 10,000 residents and no decent park here,” Judith Dailey, a tenant association leader for the public housing complex, told a City Limits’ reporter in February 1994. “There was…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Sep 2023

Government Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

NYCHA Faces Scrutiny For $78.3B Repairs Price Tag

This year’s Physical Needs Assessment showed a 73 percent leap from the last report in 2017—a staggering change NYCHA has attributed in part to inflation and construction costs.

ByTatyana Turner 1Comment

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Jun 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Opinion

Opinion: NYCHA’s ‘Public Housing Preservation Trust’ Is A Farce of Resident Engagement

“Just this year alone, public budgets allocated billions of dollars in federal spending for military intervention abroad, the state subsidy of a billionaire’s football stadium in Buffalo, and even over…

ByMarquis Jenkins

ByJames Rodriguez

ByAixa Torres 0Comments