can nycha force me to transfer to smaller apt? (New York: section 8, real estate) - Page 3 - City-Data Forum

Dollydoll75 · 09-03-2009, 12:42 PM

Dont get to comfortable. Eventually after ignoring your letters they will start a termination case against you. Trust me

Sweetsysta04 · 02-25-2010, 05:02 PM

how long does it take to get a transfer after you recieve the letter of approval. My husband and I are looking for a bigger apt we have four children in a one bedroom...We want to move from one borough to the next...we are currently in sheepsheadbay and want to transfer into queens...but they are giving us a hard time the management told my husband we have to give them a legitimate reason..isn't overcrowding enough? and why shouldn't we have a choice in which borough we want to go...if you have any info that can help us please let us know....

BigAlUWS · 03-06-2010, 10:06 AM

Most people do not live for "free" in NYCHA apartments.

My mother has lived in a NYCHA apt for more than 30 years in a good neighborhood and they are trying to get her to move to a smaller apartment. Is it fair that someone makes a home, invests in it and actually takes care of where they live to be forced to move to a building where people urinate in the halls and play loud music?

When you have worked hard to ensure that where you live is decent NO ONE should have the right to force you to move if you have been paying your rent on time.

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BigAlUWS · 03-06-2010, 10:16 AM

As a follow-up to my original reply- there are several things to consider as well.

They are forcing people to take part in a very stressful situation. Moving is not fun and involves a LOT of paperwork. Plus furniture and other items must be discarded to accomodate a smaller space.

Sarah2k9 · 03-06-2010, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by BigAlUWS

Most people do not live for "free" in NYCHA apartments.

My mother has lived in a NYCHA apt for more than 30 years in a good neighborhood and they are trying to get her to move to a smaller apartment. Is it fair that someone makes a home, invests in it and actually takes care of where they live to be forced to move to a building where people urinate in the halls and play loud music?

When you have worked hard to ensure that where you live is decent NO ONE should have the right to force you to move if you have been paying your rent on time.

Al

It is absolutely fair. Public Housing is for the public, not just for your mother. There is no reason for a single person to occupy a 2-br or 3-br apartment, and there are families of 4 or more are waiting for a bigger place. If NYCHA have a empty 1-br apt. in the same building or project, they will ask you to move. If you don't, you will be served with a court order. I'm not sure what will happen next.

Public Housing is own by the government to serve the low income public. No single individuate own any of those apartments.

BigAlUWS · 03-06-2010, 02:07 PM

i strongly disagree. when my aunt, mother and grandmother got their apartments in housing, they signed a LEASE and they are still RENTERS. housing apartments are not a shelter or "temporary" placement, if there is no room for someone on a wait list they need to do one of the following:

1. evict the hundreds of people that live out of the country and sub lease.
2. build more housing or find ways to have more affordable housing and provide incentives.
3. make tenaants accountable, if they treat housing like the street instead of their home get rid of them. if they treat their home as if it were under a bridge, they deserve to live under one.

NYCHA is in a mess because of incompetence. They promote idiots to do jobs that they have no business doing and there are more nasty, lazy managers than there are workers that actually work.

i say outsource EVERYTHING to private management companies that have to perform to keep a contract instead of the old boys and girls club that it is.

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gvillager · 03-06-2010, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by BigAlUWS

i strongly disagree. when my aunt, mother and grandmother got their apartments in housing, they signed a LEASE and they are still RENTERS.

I just love the sense of entitlement. Housing can force them to move once the lease is up.

BigAlUWS · 03-06-2010, 02:33 PM

there is entitlement. we live in NYC USA, not Moscow USSR. there aee laws that protect renters. if someone pays the rent they are entitled to lease renewals, Just because someone is poor does not entitle a landlord to treat them differently, period.

they get away with a lot because most of those victimized by managers are poor and cant afford a good lawyer nor know the steps to take. I bet that half of the "seperate" rules and court for NYCHA renters would not survive a real chsllenge in Federal court.

Viralmd · 03-06-2010, 02:37 PM

I think that if the shoe were on the other foot, that your family member was living in a one bedroom apartment while seeing a single person living in a two or three bedroom apartment but also seeing that this person refused to move, you'd feel very differently.

ohiogirl22 · 03-06-2010, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by BigAlUWS

there is entitlement. we live in NYC USA, not Moscow USSR. there aee laws that protect renters. if someone pays the rent they are entitled to lease renewals, Just because someone is poor does not entitle a landlord to treat them differently, period.

I believe even if you live in a normal apartment and pay your rent you can be asked to move out. At least you mother has an apartment all ready to move into. Someone on the "other half" would actually have to go out and look for a new place to live.