Katia Savchuk
Rock Hudson, 48, one of hundreds of workers hired by janitorial companies NYCHA has contracted to restore 10 developments damaged in Superstorm Sandy. Like Hudson, many are NYCHA tenants, recruited under a program that requires recipients of funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide job opportunities for low-income residents. A separate NYCHA initiative requires companies with contracts worth more than half a million to spend 15 percent of labor costs on residents.
Hundreds of low-income New Yorkers who’ve struggled to find jobs have found work doing post-storm cleanup, including public housing tenants. The question is: how long will it last?
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