Posted on 07/14/2021 1:17:05 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) called on President Biden on Thursday to double the funding he’s proposed to fix public housing during a tour of a Brooklyn NYCHA complex which highlighted the long-standing problems they’re seeking to remedy.
Biden has proposed pouring $40 billion into public housing throughout the U.S. over the next several years, but Schumer and Velazquez are saying it’s not enough and ultimately want the federal government to pony up more than $80 billion to address the mold, old roofs, leaky pipes and other squalid conditions that have plagued New York City Housing Authority residents for so many years.
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The contractors will kick back big bucks to Schumer etal—a blind person could see this a mile away..
Plus 10% for the Big Guy.
There were 1M people in public housing in 2020, so that comes to $80,000 per person.
... the federal government to pony up more than $80 billion to address the mold, old roofs, leaky pipes and other squalid conditions that have plagued New York City Housing Authority residents for so many years.
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The $80 billion will be gone, stuffed in the pockets of connected contractors, but the crap public apartments will remain.
It used to cost 5 billion to build an aircraft carrier. 80 billion for Schumer’s constituents??? Sure.
It used to cost 5 billion to build an aircraft carrier. 80 billion for Schumer’s constituents??? Sure.
What’s this “find it” crap? The tax payers will gladly pay it buddy.
NYCHA is (a) corrupt, (b) 100% mismanaged, (3) extravagantly wasteful and (b) ought to be privatized through multiple methods, including (1) allow some buildings to be sold to private owners, (2) allow 100% of the apartments in some buildings to be sold as co-op condo apartments and (3) allow other individual buildings to be contracted into a private landlord manager, cutting out 99% of the NYCHA bureaucracy. In 1 and 2 above current tenants could get “grandfathered in” but the apartments would go to market rates when those tenants left.
Why is there so little “affordable” housing in NYC? The answer has two parts. The first is rent control and the second is the NYCHA. Apartments locked into rent control represents some 1 million plus apartments NOT really on the free market (supply is automatically constrained by this). Any tenants in NYCHA housing are pretty much grandfathered in, which puts another 175,000 apartments that might be “affordable” to existing tenants but are also not “on the market.
By the way:
NYCHA’s Conventional Public Housing Program has 175,636 apartments (as of 2018) in 325 developments throughout the city. NYCHA has approximately 13,000 employees serving about 173,946 families and approximately 392,259 authorized residents.
That’s 13 NYCHA employees for every NYCHA managed apartment. What do you want to be those are “hard to get fired” lifetime jobs for most of the 13,000 NYCHA employees. Of course THEY are 100% behind Schumer.
Thanks for all the info. I saw a clip on Youtube when tenants of NYCHA refuse to let the building go into a public/private partnership. They are so scared they will be kicked out.
Plus, I have seen some NYCHA buildings go to a public/private partnership and the results are amazing after they fix the buildings.
Tents are only $5,000 each so why not do that?
Candace Owens worked in HUD for Ben Carson in the Trump administration. She refused to just hand over more federal money to NYCHA after she investigated the situation itself.
Yes, she did find apartments in disrepair.
She also found NYCHA was incompetent when it came to getting things fixed and there was very little repercussions in NYCHA, NYC or NY state for NYCHA’s bad management.
Texans didn’t cause *NY’s problems, why do they have to chip in to clear them up???
* & IL
*& CA
*& etc
“NYCHA is the biggest landlord in the city.”
If they make improvements to the housing, do they then raise the rates. The housing ain’t free.
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nycha/residents/pay-rent.page
So if the city of New York determines they are losing money, which they originally got from the feds, do they over rule the rent cost freeze and start top raise it? The feds in legally can’t determine rent coverage.
Rent regulation in the United States is an issue for each state. In 1921, the Supreme Court of the United States case of Block v. Hirsh held by a majority that regulation of rents in the District of Columbia as a temporary emergency measure was constitutional, but shortly afterwards in 1924 in Chastleton Corp v. Sinclair the same law was unanimously struck down by the Supreme Court. After the 1930s New Deal, the Supreme Court ceased to interfere with social and economic legislation, and a growing number of states adopted rules. So rent is controlled at the sate level and they can do a 180 any time they wish. So if it’s going to be their nickel, they can and probably will.
wy69
The high rises were replaced with “Scattered Housing”, where CHA purchased properties all across the Chicago area, including suburbs. Believe me, it didn’t take too many years for those properties to take on the same atmosphere of Robert Taylor Homes or Cabrini Green.
Pay for it yourselves NY. You tax the hell out of people, so pay for it. The rest of this country owes you nothing.
Hmmm. It would seem since the freeloader have nothing to do a trade school can be established on the premises so the freeloaders can fix it up themselves as part of their rent. BUT how would the politically connected cronies get their hands on those billions?
Why do DEMs always think that everyone in the US should contribute their tax dollars to aid blue State special needs/wants that arise from poor pols and poor budgets?
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