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Public housing residents are either unhappy or uninformed. The New York City Housing Authority is raising its fees, but many aren't even aware. The NYCHA posted the four-page announcement in each...
View ArticleStat of The Day: Quarter of Public Housing Residents Don’t Use Banks
Nearly one in 10 New Yorkers are “bankless,” the New York State Department of Banking estimates, and the numbers get worse as you move further down the income ladder. About one in four residents of...
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City Meets Resistance Over New Housing Plan on NYCHA Land
In late 2006, the Bloomberg administration announced an initiative to build new housing on the underutilized land (parking lots and such) of select city public housing projects. Vacant, publicly owned...
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City Housing Authority Chief Hernandez Leaving for Nonprofit
Tino Hernandez, chairman of the New York City Housing Authority, is leaving his position to head up a drug treatment center, Samaritan Village. He and Mayor Bloomberg announced the news in the mayor’s...
View ArticleCouncil Members Upset Over Bloomberg Pick to Head Housing Authority
Six months after New York City Housing Authority chairman Tino Hernandez said he was leaving, Mayor Bloomberg on Wednesday afternoon announced his replacement, John Rhea, an executive at Barclays. The...
View ArticleCouncil Members Upset Over Bloomberg Pick to Head Housing Authority
Six months after New York City Housing Authority chairman Tino Hernandez said he was leaving, Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday afternoon announced his replacement, John Rhea, an executive at Barclays....
View ArticleCouncil Members Upset Over Bloomberg Pick to Head Housing Authority
Six months after New York City Housing Authority chairman Tino Hernandez said he was leaving, Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday afternoon announced his replacement, John Rhea, an executive at Barclays....
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With Public Housing Under Attack, Can An Ex-Lehman Banker Save New York’s...
Housing, housing, everywhere, and not a room to rent. (Courtesy NYCHA) Housing homies. (Ed Reed/Mayor's Office) Stepping off the elevator on the 12th floor of 250 Broadway, you pass by a dozen...
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An Arbor In the Forest: Green Affordable Housing Development Opens In the Bronx
Arbor House, a 124-unit affordable housing complex in the Bronx, embraced green building practices. New York City's public housing complexes are small cities unto themselves, sealed off from the grid...
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Alms for the Upper Middle Class: Subsidized Apartments Aim at $200K Earners
Inside an Elliott-Chelsea apartment. Standing outside a shiny new red and tan brick building at 401 West 25th Street, indistinguishable from any other late-2000s new construction throughout the West...
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Fixing NYCHA-Land: Public Housing Is Still Ailing, But At Least the Buildings...
The demand is rising, but the funding is falling. The New York City Housing Authority's remains beset by financial difficulties—the federal sequestration left it with a $205 million budget shortfall...
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NYCHA’s Land Lease Plan Faces Yet Another Legal Challenge
Time is running out for NYCHA's land lease plan. In a bid to block the New York City Housing Authority's controversial land lease plan from moving forward, a group of opponents are filing a lawsuit...
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Is NYCHA’s Land Lease Plan Dead? Housing Authority Does Not Intend to...
Infill will have to wait. (eastcoalfax, flickr) The New York City Housing Authority's controversial land lease plan, in which the cash-strapped agency would have raised direly needed repair funds by...
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NYCHA Caretaker Arrested: Worker Allegedly Promised Public Housing Placements...
Bribes won't land you a NYCHA apartment. A NYCHA caretaker has been arrested after she allegedly took cash payments from individuals desperate to secure a placement in public housing. Magnolia Diaz,...
View ArticleNew York’s Real Estate Community Sizes Up de Blasio’s Affordable Housing Plan
There is a long road ahead—that much is certain. Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to create 90,000 new units of affordable housing and preserve an additional 110,000 units over the next 10 years will...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Appoints Members of Housing ‘Dream Team’
Mayor Bill de Blasio this afternoon rolled out the members of his housing team, promising a “total reset” of the previous administration’s approach to public housing. Shola Olatoye will serve as the...
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