Economy
Working For A Safer Spring In Brownsville
Nekoro Gomes |
In an area where shootings and deaths are too common, a coalition has formed to draw attention to the problem, and find solutions.
Economy
CITY LIMITS INVESTIGATES: PUBLIC HOUSING'S STRUGGLE
Jarrett Murphy |
The new issue of ‘CLI’ looks at the complicated past, troubled present and uncertain future of the nation’s oldest and largest system of public housing.
Housing and Homelessness
Time for Hardball: Public Housing Politics
Jarrett Murphy |
Organizers who target public housing have one thing going for them: The density of public housing makes it easy to reach a lot of potential voters fast—and then to follow up with them.
Housing and Homelessness
Seeing Green: NYCHA Aims to Cut Carbon, and Costs
Jarrett Murphy |
Starved for cash to maintain, let alone repair, its aging buildings, NYCHA is looking to spend money to save money—putting $400 million toward energy efficiencies.
Economy
Capital Ideas: Rebuilding Public Housing, Under Pressure
Jarrett Murphy |
Getting the money is only one problem facing NYCHA’s capital program: Another is spending that money wisely.
Housing and Homelessness
Project Patrol: Crime in Public Housing, Past and Present
Jarrett Murphy |
In 1989, the Housing Police counted 182 murders in the projects. The number of murders in public housing had risen five times as fast as the city total. That increase contributed mightily to the deteriorating image and reality of life in the projects.
Economy
Chapter 4: High Hopes, Steep Challenges for NYCHA
Jarrett Murphy |
The Bible reading during the Mass near the empty NYCHA complex was apropos. “Like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building upon it,” the passage from I Corinthians read. “But each one must be careful how he builds upon it.”
Housing and Homelessness
Chapter 3: Suddenly, No One Wanted to Pay for Public Housing
Jarrett Murphy |
For the past six years the funding from the federal government has fallen far short time and again. And the city and state have also stopped their annual support for the system.
Housing and Homelessness
Chapter 2: The Life and Times of Public Housing
Jarrett Murphy |
The trouble began for public housing when projects around the country started to struggle as financial problems and design flaws made it harder to serve an increasingly needy population.
Housing and Homelessness
Chapter 1: Public Housing's Last Stand
Jarrett Murphy |
New York City is where public housing started. It is where most public housing was built. And today, it is where the concept of public housing in America is making its last stand.
