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Public housing came closer to the hopes of the 1930s in New York City than elsewhere, but problems of physical isolation and complex questions about which income groups belong there continue to shape NYCHA.
At a forum, experts and the NYCHA chairwoman weighed in on the public-private partnerships that are at the heart of the authority’s survival plan.
No, the Rental Assistance Demonstration project is not a plot to privatize public housing or displace current residents of NYCHA’s Ocean Bay Apartments. But tenants do need to have a role in making the pilot program as strong as it can be.
Rents and purchase prices are rising in the area. Evidence is mixed whether that’s because of the rezoning or the very market pressures the mayor says necessitate the zoning change.
Legislators’ concerns over the plan to rezone East New York mirror their worries about the mayor’s citywide proposals. A deal seems likely. Its exact shape remains anybody’s guess.
Some critics of the mayor’s rezonings want the city to instead offer developers a Floor Area Availability Bonus, or FAAB. Here’s how it would work.
The key affordable-housing program faces privatization pressures, repair issues and controversies over shareholder elections—but tenants, the City Council and HPD disagree about who is in a position to solve them.
A process led by the speaker’s office and a community organization produced a plan for a denser East Harlem—but one offering deeper affordability than the de Blasio administration has proposed elsewhere.
The 12-1 vote by the City Planning Commission reflected all the contours of the larger debate over the de Blasio housing plan: Some lauded the city’s efforts to serve low-income groups while others insisted those policies don’t gone far enough.
An elaborate community planning process underway in East Harlem has the Council speaker’s backing, foundation support, critics and fans. What it doesn’t have is a sense of whether and how the city will be guided by the plan it produces.
The city says its proposed mandatory inclusionary housing program exacts as much affordability as the market will bear. But how did it reach that conclusion?
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