NYCHA complexes fight the cold, and the system
While most New Yorkers waited out record low temperatures from the comfort of their heated homes this holiday season, thousands of NYCHA residents braced against the single digit cold with…
Patterson Houses residents left in the cold
Baby it’s cold outside. Try telling that to the residents of Patterson Houses, for whom it’s just as cold inside.
Tenant leaders talk tactics in the Big Easy
Public housing activists eager to get more residents involved Tenants of public housing complexes in Mott Haven and Melrose have no shortage of complaints, and now some are taking it…
Housing Authority tenants do their own repairs
Across the city, NYCHA tenants have decided to take repairs into their own hands, as the authority staggers under a massive backlog. Among its 178,000 apartments, more than 700,000 work…
Tenants challenge police policy
Public housing "residents feel like they’re being targeted and harassed in their own homes,” says a tenant leader.
Rats plague seniors in Betances Houses
Tenants complain that they live in ‘The stinkiest building in New York” and say the Housing Authority makes things worse By Lindsay Lazarski lindsay.lazarski@motthavenherald.com For months, residents of the Betances…