NYCHA has taken steps to improve its emergency transfer program for crime witnesses and victims who want to move to new developments for their safety. But administrative delays and practical hurdles abound.
City-backed projects and grassroots gardens are collaborating on the city’s Zero Waste composting goal.
“The staggering mismatch in wages and housing costs undeniably demonstrates that we face a human dignity crisis in our urban centers that stems not from the lack of individual self-motivation but from spiraling market misalignments.”
Gains made in recent years are threatened under the budget cuts, but they are not the only potential casualty. Rule changes at HUD may increase rents for one-in-20 New Yorkers.
The Hope Gardens development will soon see an effort to bring in private money to fix public housing. It’s already seeing a clash between tenant organizers and management over how to discuss repair priorities.
The Lower East Side waterfront, already grappling with five proposed luxury towers, will now also get a mixed-income development on public housing land.
A coalition of leading criminal justice groups is fiercely opposing a new crackdown on NYCHA residents after a scathing Department of Investigations report on how the authority handles alleged criminal activity by residents.
But it’s a subcontractor, not the housing authority, that is allegedly at fault.
Previous zoning changes in the Gowanus area have triggered significant social change, the groups say, but the transformation has driven out all low-income people of color—making them vulnerable to a new wave of displacement.
Affordable housing represents an essential platform and opportunity to address in our inner cities and rural areas the needs of populations with some of the greatest health risks. Will the doctor now running HUD recognize this?
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