To Improve Public Health, Make Housing a Human Right
By Javier Lopez, Center NYC
Where we live dictates so much of our daily lives.
Does the availability, stability, and quality of housing impact …
NYCHA Managers Allegedly Lied on Lead Cleanup Reports for Hundreds of Apartments. At Least 19 Kids in Those Units Were Poisoned by Lead
Views of New York City Housing Authority residences: Queensbridge, North America’s largest public housing development. – New York City – November 26, 2017 (Shutterstock)…
NYCHA’S Lead Paint Crisis Explodes as Known Number of Apartments Where Kids Risk Exposure Triples
By Greg B. Smith, THE CITY
Thousands more young children living in public housing were potentially exposed to lead poisoning than originally thought, officials …
HUD Urges Localities To Prevent Evictions By Using Grant Funds
Rental assistance to prevent evictions is an allowable use of the $7 billion in HUD CARES Act funds
Sign in front of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in downtown Washington, DC on December 26, 2014. – WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER
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NYCHA Monitor, Mold Protections Vanish for Tenants Under Private Management
Linden Houses resident Tawana Myers says mold and other issues in her apartment exacerbate her asthma. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY
By Greg B. Smith, …
Housing Bias Fight Carries On Case By Case While Citywide Response Waits
A building in Borough Park, Brooklyn, where, a lawsuit says, black and white prospective tenants were treated differently. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY
By …
New York is closer to “universal rent control” than you think
By REBECCA C. LEWIS (City & State)
Before the 2018 state election cycle, universal rent control was not a common phrase among New Yorkers. When the idea gained popularity, thanks to …