The New York City Housing Authority ( NYCHA ) provides housing for low- and middle-income residents in five districts of New York City. NYCHA also manages the 8 Part Housing Based Program in all cities in rental apartments. These communities are often referred to in popular culture as "projects", or "developments". These facilities generally have large income gaps with the environment or their respective communities.
The mission of the New York City Housing Authority is to increase opportunities for low-and middle-income New Yorkers by providing safe and affordable housing and facilitating access to social and community services. More than 400,000 New Yorkers live in 328 public housing in 32 buildings in the city. The other 235,000 receive subsidized rent assistance in private homes through the NYCHA Section-Based Housing Program 8.
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Government
NYCHA is a New York state public assistance company organized under Public Housing Law. The NYCHA ("NYCHA Board") consists of seven members, where the chairman is appointed by and serves the Mayor of New York City's fun, while the other is appointed for a three-year term by the mayor.
Operation
Authority is the largest public housing authority (PHA) in North America. Apart from many problems, it is still considered by experts to be the most successful public housing authority of the largest city in the country. While most of the major public housing authorities in the United States (Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, etc.) have destroyed their high projects and in many cases replaced them with lower-scale housing, New York continues to be fully charged. Most of the market houses are also in tall buildings.
NYCHA also manages the 8 Part Housing Based Program in all cities in rental apartments. However, new applications for Section 8 have not been received since December 10, 2009.
New York also has a long waiting list for the apartment. Due to demand, the Housing Authority has in recent years chosen more "working families" from applicants to diversify the income structure of its inhabitants, as is usually the first population to occupy the facility. Conventional Public Housing Program NYCHA has 181,581 apartments (as of July 20, 2005) in 345 developments across the city.
NYCHA has approximately 13,000 employees serving approximately 176,221 families and about 403,120 official residents. Based on the 2010 census, NYCHA Public Housing represents 8.2% of urban rental apartments and is home to 4.9% of the city's population. NYCHA residents and Section 8 coupon holders combined occupy 12.4% of the city's rental apartments.
In mid-2007, NYCHA faced a $ 225 million budget shortfall.
By the end of 2015, NYCHA announced the creation of a Fund for Public Housing, a nonprofit organization that will seek to raise $ 200 million over three years to supplement NYCHA's efforts and improve the lives of NYC resident residents. The Fund received the first $ 100,000 donation from Deutsche Bank in December 2015.
Statistics
- 326 developments in New York City
- Staten Island has 10 developments with 4,499 apartments
- Queens has 22 developments with 17,126 apartments
- The Bronx has 100 developments with 44,500 apartments
- Brooklyn has 98 developments with 58,669 apartments
- Manhattan has 102 developments with 53,890 apartments
- The Bronzeville, part of Chicago now has the highest concentration of low-income public housing in America, following the demolition of a 5-mile broad housing channel stretching along the Federal and State on Chicago's Southern Side. While pre-plans for the transformation of the Chicago Housing Authority's high development tend to be much larger and more concentrated than the NYCHA, NYCHA operates several times as many apartments and homes are three times as many residents. East Harlem in Manhattan has the second highest public housing concentration in the country, following Brownsville.
- The Queensbridge homes in Long Island City, Queens, are now North America's largest residential project with 3,142 apartments, following the demolition of several larger Chicago housing projects, including Cabrini-Green House and Robert Taylor's House (4,321 three, four and five-bedroom apartments once made it the largest public housing project in the world).
- The largest development of the Bronx is Edenwald Houses in Edenwald with 2,036 apartments.
- The largest building in Brooklyn is the Red Hook House at Red Hook with 2,878 apartments.
- Manhattan's largest development is Baruk House on the Lower East Side with 2,391 apartments
- The largest construction of Staten Island is Stapleton House in Stapleton with 693 apartments.
- 10 developments consisting of FHA Acquired Homes located in more than one borough and a total of 200 apartments
- 42 development only for the elderly; 15 senior buildings alone exist in the development of a mixed population
- NYCHA has about 9,822 apartments intended for seniors only
- There are also 7,639 apartments installed for families of people with mobility limitations as of 30 September 2007
- Since October 1, 2007: Two developments are at least 70 years old; a total of 13 developments of at least 60 years; there are 62 developments of 50 to 59 years; 76 other developments are 40 to 49 years, and 95 developments are 30 to 39 years old.
- The combined demographics of all public housing developments in New York City are about 46% Black, 44% Hispanic, 4% White, 5% Asian, and 1% others.
- NYCHA inhabitants in Chelsea earn far less money than the average citizens of Chelsea and almost half tend to have a college degree.
History
NYCHA was created in 1934. At the end of 1935, NYCHA dedicated its first development, called First House, located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The Authority exploded in partnership with Robert Moses after World War II as part of Moses' plan to clean the old tenement houses and rebuild New York as a modern city. Musa indicated later on that he was disappointed with how the public housing system fell into decline and collapse. The majority of the NYCHA development was built between 1945 and 1965. Unlike most other cities, New York relies heavily on city and state funds to build its housing, not just the federal government. Most postwar construction has more than 1000 apartment units, and most were built with modern, tower-in-park styles that were popular at the time.
In 1995, the New York City Housing Police Department and New York City Transit Police were merged into the New York City Police Department by NYC Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and continue today as the Housing Bureau of the New York City Police Department.
NextGen NYCHA
As of May 2015, the NYCHA reshuffle is currently underway with the 'NextGeneration NYCHA' proposal, a ten-year plan aimed at preserving public housing for future generations. The multifaceted plan introduces a new strategy designed to expand and conserve public housing, improve current infrastructure, increase stakeholder engagement, create more affordable housing and modernize the current tools that connect residents and property management. NextGeneration NYCHA, part of the affordable Bill de Blasio Mayor housing plan, is a long-term strategic plan detailing how NYCHA will create a safe, clean, and connected community for our residents and preserve New York City public housing assets for the next generation. NYCHA residents are important partners in this work.
Legal Charges
Legal suit
In February 2018, attorney Jim Walden filed suit on behalf of 400,000 NYCHA tenants living in slums. The lawsuit demanded that the court appoint an independent monitor to oversee the NYCHA because it failed to provide tenants with heat and hot water, keep residents safe from lead, involve tenants in policy making, and hire citizens, as required by federal law. In April 2018, under strong pressure from the lawsuit, chairman Shola Olatoye resigned in embarrassment.
Legal charges
On June 11, 2018, US Attorney Geoffrey Berman filed a lawsuit accusing NYCHA of violating health and safety regulations, exposing children to lead paint, and training workers to cheat the inspector. According to federal prosecutors, NYCHA employee fraud that is used includes closing the building's water supply during inspections to hide leaks and build fake walls of plywood to hide the dilapidated rooms of the inspectors. On that day, the NYCA finalized the lawsuit by recognizing the allegations, agreeing to spend an additional $ 1 billion over the next four years, and by approving oversight by federal monitors.
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See also
- Public housing in the United States
- Mitchell-Old Housing Program
- Archives of La Guardia and Wagner
- Lease control in New York
- Developing Life
- Department of New York City Housing Conservation and Development
- Project Lives
References
External links
- The NYCHA website
- La Guardia and Wagner Archives/Collections of New York City Housing Authority
- "The New York City Housing Authority collects news and comments". The New York Times .
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