I would bet that the residents are a greater threat to the residents than the structure (which was no doubt destroyed by the residents) is
Only a politician...
“Mayor Bill de Blasio has blamed public-housing problems on decadeslong funding declines from Washington. The New York City Housing Authority is overseen by HUD.”
... Would take a local problem and then blame it on the White House. It’s like me being late with a deadline, and when the project falls apart I skip over everyone else and go straight for the Client’s wife for the screw-up.
A 10 percent surcharge on the dope moved out of these “apartments” might help...
“” “” The sprawling network of 176,000 apartment units across the five boroughs needs an estimated $25 billion of repairs,”” “”
“” “” The sprawling network of 176,000 apartment units across the five boroughs needs an estimated $25 billion of repairs,”” “”
Gold plated?
“Stay in your hole and vote Democrat and I’ll throw you a morsel of government cheese every once in awhile.” - Democrat politicians
NYC is unusual, in that many of the tenants in these apartments are respectable people with jobs. The high price of market-rate housing prevents them from leaving. A lot of them pay big rent surcharges because their income is high.
“Tenants typically are given Section 8 rental-subsidy vouchers. “
Which leads to nice towns becoming Ferguson,MO.
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That would be about $142K per unit.
Just like Cabrini-Green in Chicago...
Yet annual federal funding for the nation’s largest public-housing program hasn’t kept pace.They're run by the New York Housing Authority. Why is it the Feds' fault?
The solution is quite simple...... tax the drug dealers
We have traveled all through this beautiful country and sadly public housing is usually the only eyesore that we encounter. People tend to take care of what they own . . . enough said.
Stopped reading right there.
That’s Mensah, not Mensa.
176,000 apartment units — Out of the 176,000 apartment there are no able body men (and or women) than can not clean up, paint and repair the buildings?
Rhetorical question. We all know first the unions would not allow it, nor would the ACLU, and last, how dare we ask someone getting government assistance to actually take care of the home tax payers are providing.
I say, let them crumble and do not replace them.
Cut em off. The NY public housing authority should be 100% a concern and financial obligation of the city of New York and New York state, not the federal government.
Didn’t they run this same story 50 years ago?