NYC plans to demolish two NYCHA buildings, build new apartments for public housing residents

NY Post ^ | 06/21/2023 | Nolan Hicks

[ChicagoConservative27]

NYCHA will announce on Wednesday a $1.5 billion plan to demolish and redevelop two massive and crumbling public housing complexes in Manhattan, City Hall confirmed.

The sweeping redevelopment deal calls for the construction of more than 2,000 new public housing apartments at the Fulton Houses and Chelsea-Elliot Houses, enough for every resident currently residing at the existing buildings, officials said late Tuesday.

“This is how you create new public housing for the next generation, this is what we need,” said Miguel Avecedo, president of the Fulton Houses Tenant Association.

The new units would include amenities rarely seen in public housing, including resident-controlled in-unit heating and cooling, new dishwashers, washers and dryers.

Under the plan, which was first reported by The New York Times, rents will remain fixed at 30% of a tenant’s income.

[SamAdams76]

NYC has hundreds of huge public housing structures like those below. So drab and hopeless looking.

The people in them vote 98% Democrat however so they will just keep on building them out.

[cymbeline]

“More money down the drain”

Correct, and I’ll bet you, like me, paid for your house.

[Iron Munro]

More wealth redistribution from New York taxpayers to the NY City building trades labor unions

[Iron Munro]

Why are they not renovating the existing buildings?

Because

1. The bigger the scam budget the more money the politicians can skim

2. The bigger the scam budget the more money that can be funneled to the labor unions to keep them voting the right way

[nicollo]

Gee, this wouldn’t have anything to do with a moribund office construction industry in need of new revenue sources (and associated political kickbacks), would it?