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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

☆ Who Are Key Players in the Menendez Case?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Tracey Tully | Benjamin Weiser | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

Who Are Key Players in the Menendez Case? Mr. Menendez goes to trial on May 13 with two of the businessmen, Fred Daibes and Wael Hana. Fred Daibes New Jersey Real Estate Developer Mr. Daibes is accused of giving Mr. Menendez furniture, gold and cash. Nadine Menendez Mr. Menendez’s Wife Ms. Menendez served as a go-between for Mr. Menendez, Egyptian intelligence officials and men who were seeking political favors from the senator, according to the indictment. Defense LawyersAdam Fee Lawyer for Robert Menendez He previously spent five years as a prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District — the same office prosecuting Mr. Menendez.

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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.

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☆ 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

☆ How These Budding Entrepreneurs Won $20,000 for Their Start-Ups
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Winnie Hu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Teaching remotely, Ms. Adams put the money that she saved by not commuting toward trying out recipes for vegan muffins, reduced-sugar cookies and low-carb pizzas. A few months ago, Ms. Adams received a newsletter from her landlord, the New York City Housing Authority, which announced a new competition for entrepreneurs living in public housing. It offered cash prizes of up to $20,000 and free business development classes. “I thought it was fake,” Ms. Adams said. She called the housing authority to make sure it was real.

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