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The authority receives $1.5 billion in annual funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Williams' office said. "NYCHA residents deserve better," Williams said in a statement.
More than five dozen employees with the New York City Housing Authority were charged with accepting cash payments in exchange for giving out contracts, federal officials said, calling it the ...
New York City's Mayor Eric Adams was indicted Wednesday, the culmination of mounting political and ethical issues. The indictment, unsealed Thursday, alleges Adams engaged in corruption dating ...
Website. nyc.gov/nycha. The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is a public development corporation which provides public housing in New York City, and is the largest public housing authority in North America. Created in 1934 as the first agency of its kind in the United States, it aims to provide decent, affordable housing for low- and ...
Signed by. Andrew Cuomo. Signed. June 14, 2019. Status: Current legislation. The Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (HSTPA) is a New York state statute that introduced major changes to landlord-tenant law. [1]
Article 7A of the New York Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law (RPAPL) enables that "a housing court judge appoints an administrator to collect the building's rents and use them for repairs" as an alternative to "fruitless rent strikes." [1] About 10% per year of those appointed in the 1980s were removed, and money accountability problems ...
Callahan v. Carey was a landmark case in the New York County Supreme Court that established the duty of New York State to provide shelter for homeless men. It was brought in 1979 as a class action suit, the first such suit by advocates for the homeless in the United States, and settled with the negotiation in 1981 of a consent decree governing the provision of homeless shelters by New York City.
In the winter of 2018, Cuomo responded to a class-action lawsuit brought against the New York City Housing Authority by attorney Jim Walden on behalf of a group of public housing tenants. The suit was the first of its kind and called upon NYCHA to immediately address decrepit and unhealthy conditions in public housing units across New York City ...