NYCHA and public housing

“Its focus is on NYCHA residents. This bill requires that the city create a formal business directory for NYCHA tenant-owned businesses, coupled with a robust marketing campaign.”

“We want them to be using them as preventive services and preventive healthcare. So I’m really hoping that that is a part of the conversation and we’re really getting in front of it. Also, you know, federal public housing requires at least one household member to have an eligible immigration status.”

“The fact that the New York City Housing Authority would be sitting on upwards of 6,000 units, in some cases 10,000 units, is truly obscene. We do understand that The housing authority has been defunded over the years, and this is a critical housing stock for our city.”

“You know, when, when Mayor Adams came into office, there were hundreds of vacancies. Uh, back then there were 4,000 vacancies. Today there’s almost 6,300 vacancies. We continue to absolutely fail on this. It is an utter disgrace that we have so many vacant NYCHA apartments, and this issue continues to get worse.”

“Cornerstone providers are often caught between DYCD and NYCHA when requesting facility repairs, leading to long delays.”

“Do you all have any reason to be concerned about data privacy and the way that PD is potentially using Big Apple Connect for, like, biometric scanning or any— of public housing residents?”