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 no such luck.
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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
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 orders await completion and another 300,000 are in the pipeline. Leaks, cracked walls, rodent infestations, broken cabinets and appliances and other deterioration demand the constant attention of work crews.
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