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☆ New Yorkers Who Need Help With Rent Can (Finally) Join a List for Help
  + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Mihir Zaveri | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
For the first time in 15 years, thousands of people who cannot afford to live in New York City may be able to get financial help through a highly sought-after federal program. The New York City Housing Authority on Monday reopened a waiting list for housing choice vouchers, a federally funded program also known as Section 8. Now, that waiting list has dropped to 3,700 households, prompting NYCHA to reopen it. Vouchers help more than five million people nationwide, but in no place is the program as expansive — and perhaps as needed — as in New York City. Here, nearly a quarter of a million lower-income New Yorkers rent apartments on the private market using vouchers.
Persons: NYCHA Organizations: New, New York City Housing Authority Locations: New York, New York City
☆ 70 Arrests Highlight Corruption in Nation's Largest Public Housing Authority, US Attorney Says
  + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Associated Press | Feb. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +2 min
NEW YORK (AP) — In announcing 70 arrests, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday that the largest public housing authority in the nation was infested by a “classic pay-to-play” culture of corruption that dispensed repair jobs valued at under $10,000 to contractors willing to pay bribes. Bribery and extortion charges led to a roundup of current and former employees of the New York City Housing Authority that represented the largest single-day bribery takedown in the history of the U.S. Justice Department, Williams said. Photos You Should See View All 45 Images“If the contactors didn’t pay up, the defendants wouldn’t give them the work. The city's public housing authority receives over $1.5 billion in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development each year. Some defendants, authorities said, demanded even greater amounts of money in return for using their discretion to favor one contractor over another.
Persons: —, Damian Williams, Williams, ” Organizations: Yorkers, New, New York City Housing Authority, U.S . Justice Department, U.S . Department of Housing, Urban Development Locations: New York City, ”, New York , New Jersey , Connecticut, North Carolina
☆ Almost $80 Billion Needed for Repairs to New York City’s Public Housing
  + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Mihir Zaveri | More About Mihir Zaveri | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Worsening living conditions in the city’s public housing system have vast implications. NYCHA’s developments are home to more than 330,000 people, a population larger than that of Orlando or Pittsburgh. Rents for public housing residents tend to be capped at 30 percent of their income, and the average rent is less than $560 per month. New York’s public housing system was once heralded as a progressive triumph. A new public benefit corporation, created by the state last year, could also give the access to more funds.
Persons: Eric Adams, Barack Obama, NYCHA, Adams, Lisa Bova, Hiatt, Jamie Rubin Locations: York City, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Chelsea
☆ To Improve Public Housing, New York City Moves to Tear It Down
  + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Mihir Zaveri | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Tearing down public housing has become something of a national trend, except in New York, where the New York City Housing Authority has held onto its stock of aging buildings even as repair bills and tenant complaints mount. At Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea, more than 2,000 public housing apartments would be replaced. The plan also calls for the construction of new retail and commercial spaces and 3,500 mixed-income apartments, with around 1,000 restricted to people earning lower incomes and the rest renting at market rates. It would be only the third tear-down in the agency’s nearly 90-year history, and the first time new, mixed-income buildings would be built on NYCHA land. City officials said they hope to replicate the plan elsewhere as conditions in public housing worsen.
Organizations: New, New York City Housing Authority, Fulton Houses, Elliott, Chelsea Houses Locations: New York, New York City, Manhattan, Fulton, Elliott, Chelsea
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