Posted on 11/29/2021 1:20:44 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Nowhere is the wait for repairs in city public housing more desperate than at the Castle Hill Houses in The Bronx — the number of open work orders for residents there has ballooned to more than 11,000 in recent months.
The repair request backlog at the sprawling four-block NYCHA development has grown by more than 26 percent over the last year as NYCHA failed to keep up with deteriorating conditions in the complex’s 2,000 apartments.
It’s the biggest backlog for any single development across the entire system of public housing in the Big Apple, which has more than 280 complexes, according to data reviewed by The Post.
The findings did not shock 20-year-old Henry Sanchez, who lives on the 19th floor of one of the complex’s 20-story towers with his disabled mother.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
NOOOO!!!! Not the kitchen drawer. Whatever will we do???
“City Hall estimates it would take at least $40 billion — or more than $180,000 per unit — to bring all of NYCHA’s developments back to a good state of repair.”
Sounds like a new test site for the latest MOAB.
You can get a drawer repair kit at the hardware store (or from Amazon) for $20 or so.
Wow, average of 5.5 repair tickets per unit. How the hell do you get an 11,000 repair ticket backlog? I’ll bet lots of those repair tickets have been open for years.
There’s nothing like a socialist paradise!
Unbelievable. He could have fixed the damn drawer in a tenth the time he spent complaining about it.
Reminds me of the President Reagan joke, “Soviet guy saves up money to buy a new car. Goes to the dealership and they say ‘congratulations, your car will be ready for delivery in 10 years’.”
‘Will that be in the morning or afternoon?’, the buyer asks.
‘What difference does it make 10 years from now?’, the salesman replied.
“Because the plumber is coming in the morning’.
I moved into Castle Hill when it first opened, I was 7. I watched them build the Throggs Neck Bridge from my bedroom window, which was looking South. I could see most of the NYC skyline.
I also observed the construction of Shea Stadium and the World’s Fair in ‘65, just across the East River.
We stayed there for 10 years, then I enlisted in the USN.
The projects were going downhill fast, by the ‘80s it was a no-go zone.
We moved to CA in ‘77. It was everything they said it was. Now nearly half a decade later, I’m stuck here. We are lucky to be in a very rural unincorporated part of a Red county; a community of about 200 with all the same views about the state of the country.
ahhh yes, the condensed blessings of socialism...
I was going to say the need to Cabrini-Green the whole mess.
Lol. You vote for liberals and unions you get what you deserve.
Let them send the work to all the Minority Business Enterprises (MBE) and Women’s Business Enterprises (WBE) that they give priority to on New York City contracts.
A friend is a partner at an accounting firm, and does regular audits of our local rust-belt blue-city Municipal Housing Authority.
It is a total and utter mess. I complete sinkhole of money, encouraging every.single.bad welfare mentality imaginable.
Residents pay rent on 2 bedroom apartments of approx. $170/month - but none actually pay, because of state-covid rent moratorium. Its a crime-ridden hell-hole, that smells like urine, while at the same time, tenants call the housing authority to literally change light-bulbs in their apartments, expecting concierge service. Meanwhile, someone stole copper wiring from part of one of the building, which means a total re-do of several floors of wiring - necessitating the tenants (inmates?) be moved to other apartments, possibly private ones if necessary. But of course, the rent must be guaranteed by the state, because they aren’t paying their rents!!
$180,000 per unit????
Some one is doing some serious damages...
When does some of this fall onto the renter???
Assign the task to de Blasio’s wife...She can use some of that $880 mil she has in her back pocket to fix it right up!!
True, but you are thinking like a homeowner.
These are tenants, many of whom are conditioned to pester the landlord for any little thing, be it a squeaky door, a loose door know or a broken toilet chain.
That is why I never became a landlord.
Geta treadmill?
You know, the delayed ones sitting in the ocean off Long Beach?
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