NYCHA Funding Shortfall Could Mean Dark Days for Projects
City Hall News reports that the New York City Housing Authority is looking at a $200 million budget shortfall this year, which some officials say is likely to result in worsening conditions at public housing. You see the conditions they’re living in and the problems they’re going through, says Council Member Rosie Mendez (D-Manhattan), who…
City Hall News reports that the New York City Housing Authority is looking at a $200 million budget shortfall this year, which some officials say is likely to result in worsening conditions at public housing. You see the conditions they’re living in and the problems they’re going through, says Council Member Rosie Mendez (D-Manhattan), who chairs the Council’s Public Housing Committee, and you’re sort of helpless in trying to rectify the situation. Last year NYCHA had a $168 million budget deficit. As federal funding for the projects has dried up, so too have city and state dollars. In recent years NYCHA has laid off thousands of employees and cut hundreds of millions of dollars from its operating budget. Some public housing advocates say that the city uses the projects as a “cash cow,” collecting millions every year for things like police services. Although there have been rumors that some of the city’s public housing stock would be sold off to private developers, Nicholas Dagen Bloom, an assistant professor at the New York Institute of Technology and author of “Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century,” says that’s probably not going to happen. It’s not likely the program will be privatized, he says, but there will be structural changes in the way it operates to reflect current conditions, which is higher costs. The are currently more than 400,000 residents of public housing in the city, and rent averages $320 a month for tenants who earn, on average, $20,000 a year.
The City’s Own Looming Housing Crisis [City Hall]
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oh plz goverment knock these hellholes down all ready in nyc its way overdue.
“In recent years NYCHA has laid off thousands of employees”
I don’t know where you got that statistic from. It’s more like a few hundred.
Gee 7:57: You ghetto upbringing is showing.
Get a well-paying job, work hard, pay a lot in taxes and then try to listen to the uneducated and under-employed complain about $320/month rent.
I have no sympathy for the poor if all they do is complain and do nothing to get ahead.
If others can come to this country – some illegally – get a job, pay rent, send money back to their home country and never rely on public assistance then some lazy ass native can do the same.
The free ride is over. Start paying your fair share.
Gee 7:57- your sheet with the eye holes is showing
I culture that thinks getting an education is “acting white” suffers more at its own hands than at the hands of any racists.
“Sure racism and history may be the cause of some (or even all) of these cultural differences today – BUT – until you change the culture in these underclass communities – all the subsidies in the world will do basically nothing”
Racism and history are most certainly the cause of the cultural differences. But what has to change is not only the culture in the “underclass communities” – BUT- the overall culture of racism.
I pay a lot in taxes and I don’t want it spent on welfare mamas and their babies. Close these pieces of crap down and kick the poor and ignorant out into the real world. If you can’t survive, take the hint and leave.
No, Polie, I don’t want to give them any more money than they have already received in cheap housing, food stamps and free education – which they obviously did not take advantage of.
Get out and close the door behind you as you leave.
denton- did want to discuss that with you. Still think you’re confusing libs with the upper crust right who line up behind Bloomberg. Manhattan is becoming a rareified atmosphere because those with money think anything that isn’t pretty or smacks of “working class” is just too far below them to stay. those are the people who have pushed out manufacturing. That said, yes libs were the first to jump on the enviromental thing but while that is a liberal issue, pushing out jobs isn’t. Not to mention- bad air is bad for everyone. If we’re all sick or dying from the pollution, we won’t be manufacturing or unionizing or anything else. but you do have to admit it isn’t the liberals who are squeezing out the middle and working poor from their neighborhoods. that’s big money, real estate money and it is the conservative right.
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ah- it it were only so straight forward. Yo may not see the breaks in lower tax rates, but it is a known well established fact that those with the most money have many ways of avoiding paying their full share of taxes. Not to mention all those public funds that get thrown their way, tax shelters, etc. And that’s fine- it’s their money. BUT the idea that they are keeping the country afloat, and the rest of us who make less are somehow undeserving is a crock. Halliburton- a classic example of piggery-, has made billions off of our government (you know- OUR tax money), and is now moving to Dubai to avoid paying taxes. Now free market or not, what evidence do you see of ethics here? Oh, I’m sorry- its all about the money. Yet our absolutely idiotic President is telling us to spend the measly 600$ he is sending us so that we can save our economy. Why does it fall to the working and middle class instead of the big corporations to save it? Because collectively it is the working class that keep the economy afloat. Of course to figure that out you have to drill down a few levels to see it, not just look at what’s on paper. If what’s on paper was the whole story, Wall Street traders could save the planet. And now I’m done- doubt I will convince anyone because after all I’m not rich, so obviously what do I know?
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