After much work and negotiation, the 322 families of Harlem’s A. Philip Randolph Houses thought they had a plan to rebuild their 36 run-down tenement buildings. But the city says the funding must change.
in Harlem. This winter, they learned that they would be displaced for a long time, and that some of them weren’t going to be able to come back.
In the last few months, the city’s housing department has unleashed or reactivated a slew of programs for dilapidated apartment buildings. Harlem, which still has plenty of neglected properties, will be especially affected.
Thanks to some help from community group ACORN and powerful politicians like Charles Rangel, a tenant group in East Harlem is going to avoid eviction.
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