Housing and Homelessness
NYCHA'S RAB-BIT PUNCH
Amanda Bell |
Tenants in New York public housing put faith in new Resident Advisory Boards to represent their concerns, but it looks like the same old story.
Housing and Homelessness
CLEAN-UP PROJECT
Kathleen McGowan |
According to sources both inside and outside New York’s public housing system, billions of dollars of maintainence are being put off, and the buildings are really showing it.
Housing and Homelessness
HOW COME YOU CAN NEVER FIND A GOOD ICOP WHEN YOU NEED ONE?
Laura Claxton |
Tenant activists says the public housing tenants council is under the thumb of the New York City Housing Authority.
Housing and Homelessness
HOPE $PRINGS IN ROCKAWAY
Glenn Thrush |
Federal law requires the city’s housing authority to demolish safe and clean public housing in Far Rockaway, but it looks like Congress will grant a waiver.
Bronx
GREAT NYCHA VACANCY MYSTERY: ARE 7,500 APARTMENTS EMPTY?
G. Thrush and A. Felton |
The community group ACORN did some math and says the city’s housing authority is sitting on 7,500 vacant apartments, a charge NYCHA vigorously denies.
Housing and Homelessness
JUDGE BLOCKS NYCHA'S BID TO PUSH POOR TO BACK OF WAITING LIST
Glenn Thrush |
Advocates got a little breathing room in their quest to stop a city housing authority plan to keep the poorest applicants from renting vacant apartments.
Bronx
CO-OP VICTIMS PLAN RENT STRIKE REVENGE AGAINST NYCHA
Glenn Thrush |
In the latest issue of City Limits: How the city’s housing bureaucracy ruined an innovative program designed to allow some public housing to become co-ops for the low-income tenants.
Housing and Homelessness
FRANCO SAYS NYCHA DEREG PLAN IS DEAD — BUT NOT BURIED
Glenn Thrush |
Vocal objections by tenants in public housing have scotched city plans to ask for federal permission to change several core NYCHA policies.
Housing and Homelessness
BIG NYCHA HEARING ON TAP
Glenn Thrush |
They city housing agency will hold a public hearing next week on its controversial deregulation plan.
Housing and Homelessness
NYCHA LAWYERS CAN'T KILL EAST SIDE TENANT PROTEST
Glenn Thrush |
Several legal hearings later, the city housing agency has lost its attempt to stop a tenant street protest against a proposed deregulation scheme.
