Posted on 03/18/2018 8:00:00 AM PDT by reaganaut1
New York City’s public housing is literally falling apart.
The sprawling network of 176,000 apartment units across the five boroughs needs an estimated $25 billion of repairs, up from $6 billion in 2005. Yet annual federal funding for the nation’s largest public-housing program hasn’t kept pace.
Residents of decaying brick towers battle leaking roofs and moldy walls, broken elevators and aging infrastructure. This winter, the housing authority’s ancient boilers gave out, leaving more than 320,000 people without heat or hot water.
“When you constantly cut a budget for housing…this kind of crisis is going to emerge,” said Shaun Donovan, a former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and a former New York City housing commissioner. “It’s dire.”
Advocates said conditions now pose danger to residents, especially to children and seniors.
“We’re hitting a crisis point,” said Afua Atta-Mensah, executive director of Community Voices Heard, a New York City nonprofit that organizes public-housing residents. She said the group has been buying carbon monoxide monitors for people who have been using their ovens as a heat source, a practice that fire officials have warned is dangerous.
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.
Housing authorities in other major cities, such as San Francisco, Chicago and Atlanta, now manage a vanishingly small share of their units. In some cases, cities have continued to own the land or buildings and they are run largely by private real-estate companies, while in other cases the original buildings are demolished completely. Tenants typically are given Section 8 rental-subsidy vouchers.
Critics say New York was too slow to adopt this model.
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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
““” “” The sprawling network of 176,000 apartment units across the five boroughs needs an estimated $25 billion of repairs,”” “”
Gold plated?”
Should be 1 billion tops if you back out the big city graft and corruption “tax”.
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.
Isn’t that $140,000+ per apartment?
All that’s missing is the headline, “Trump to City, ‘Drop Dead’”
“Isn’t that $140,000+ per apartment?”
Thanks for doing the math. I said tops but NYC “tenants” can do a lot of damage!
Anything the guberment does cost ten times as much with only 10% of the quality a private contractor/owner would do.
I guess the answer is to give the rebuild contract to the people that built the walk bridge in Florida. Problem would solve itself.
Just like Cabrini-Green in Chicago...
“” “” Isn’t that $140,000+ per apartment?”” “”
And that being some drywall, pipes, a few tiles and a toilet bowl replaced.
I want this contract.
And they say East Europe is corrupt.
In China a public official anticipating a plan like that would get a fair trial and a bullet.
In Russia one would have to flee to London to avoid prison.
I do hope people realize that when they destroyed those housing projects that the people still had to live somewhere...hence Section 8, the Number 1 destroyer of good neighborhoods in the country.
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