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A/C units sat in the windows of a Washington Heights tenement building.

Trump istration

Trump Budget Proposal Could Devastate New York’s Housing Landscape

May 7, 2025, 5:00 a.m.May 12, 2025, 2:02 p.m.

Billions in aid cuts and a two-year limit on vouchers would cripple tenants and landlords alike, industry groups say.

A map shows NYCHA complexes across the five boroughs were federal prosecutors allege superintendents were taking bribes.

Public Housing

NYCHA Paid Out Millions to Bribe-Paying Contractors Implicated in Corruption Takedown

April 16, 2025, 2:11 p.m.April 16, 2025, 2:14 p.m.

An investigation by THE CITY finds contractors who publicly confessed to paying thousands of bribes to Housing Authority staff were subsequently awarded hundreds of no-bid contracts. NYCHA says it had no idea.

Dozens of anti-DOGE demonstrators held a die-in at the Stock Exchange to protest steep budget cuts.

How to New York

How GOP Budget Cuts Could Affect NYC: Your Questions Answered

March 20, 2025, 5:00 a.m.March 20, 2025, 3:30 p.m.

It’s not just programs that receive federal funding that could be at risk.

NYCHA

Electric Heat Pumps Get Warm Reviews at Queens Public Housing Development

Feb. 27, 2025, 5:00 a.m.Feb. 27, 2025, 4:47 p.m.

Woodside Houses residents say the eco-friendly alternatives to steam radiators have served them well through the winter.

Scaffolding was set up while repairs were made at NYCHA’s Walt Whitman Houses in Brooklyn.

Trump istration

Federal Frenzy Puts Public Housing Funding and Nonprofit Grants in Question

Jan. 30, 2025, 5:41 p.m.Jan. 30, 2025, 5:54 p.m.

The viability of apartments for more than half a million low-income New Yorkers relies on federal dollars that the Trump istration has vowed to reexamine and potentially revoke.

NYCHA workers made the rounds at the Jackie Robinson Houses in East Harlem.

Public Housing

Rampant Lack of Oversight Led to NYCHA Contract Corruption, Comptroller Audit Finds

Nov. 20, 2024, 6:03 p.m.Nov. 20, 2024, 6:04 p.m.

Comptroller Brad Lander’s office found dozens of cases where NYCHA could not document that work the agency had paid for was actually done.

Public Housing

NYCHA Residents in Coney Island Reject Move to Nonprofit Trust Fund

Aug. 16, 2024, 4:40 p.m.Aug. 18, 2024, 7:21 p.m.

The vote on Friday was a blow to City Hall’s goal of injecting public housing with cash by floating new bonds, after three other developments embraced that plan.

NYCHA

Cascade of NYCHA Failures Led to Panic Over Nonexistent Arsenic, Probe Finds

May 17, 2024, 12:18 p.m.May 17, 2024, 12:19 p.m.

t inquiry by the Department of Investigation and the public housing monitor identifies costly chain of mistakes in handling water at Jacob Riis Houses that led to “unquantifiable stress” for tenants.

NYCHA

Dozens of NYCHA Staff Have Pleaded Guilty to Bribery in ‘Micro’ Contracts Scheme

May 15, 2024, 3:52 p.m.May 15, 2024, 3:52 p.m.

Wave of guilty pleas has begun after a February U.S. Department of Justice takedown charged 70 current and former employees with pocketing bribes to award no-bid contracts to favored vendors.

Jacob Riis Houses tenant Blanca Ramos shows where a kitchen cabinet fell from her wall after a water leak.

Housing

Ten Years After NYCHA Mold Repair Pact, Progress Is Tarnished by Delays

April 22, 2024, 5:00 a.m.April 22, 2024, 5:40 p.m.

The federal consent decree known as the Baez agreement has helped push the city housing authority to make much needed repairs faster, tenants say.

Public Housing

Trump Budget Proposal Could Devastate New York’s Housing Landscape

NYCHA Paid Out Millions to Bribe-Paying Contractors Implicated in Corruption Takedown

How GOP Budget Cuts Could Affect NYC: Your Questions Answered

Electric Heat Pumps Get Warm Reviews at Queens Public Housing Development

Federal Frenzy Puts Public Housing Funding and Nonprofit Grants in Question

Rampant Lack of Oversight Led to NYCHA Contract Corruption, Comptroller Audit Finds

NYCHA Residents in Coney Island Reject Move to Nonprofit Trust Fund

Cascade of NYCHA Failures Led to Panic Over Nonexistent Arsenic, Probe Finds

Dozens of NYCHA Staff Have Pleaded Guilty to Bribery in ‘Micro’ Contracts Scheme

Ten Years After NYCHA Mold Repair Pact, Progress Is Tarnished by Delays

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