I have a feeling it won't go through as it has been suggested in the past but the idea is has it's cons.
You have to take into account all the people that will be displaced. You also have to take into account all that low income housing will be relocated to low income areas. It's bad enough some neighborhoods have such high concentration. Now they will have even more. Shutting down the few PJ's in Midtown and moving them to East NY and the South Bronx is not the greatest idea but what this city has been setting up. It's already being done using other low income housing programs.
We have enough homeless families as it is...
As for big screen TV's, your right I see them in public housing apartments but that is no sign of wealth. For one nowadays they are very cheap and look at where they are putting their money...
And if this goes through, and all is said and done. The PJ's will need major overhauls to become market rate housing. If they are not torn down they will need the grounds to be completely redesigned, exterior facade face lifts, new plumbing, major interior asthestic improvements, new lighting, basically a lot of changes and repairs. Not to mention the bugs and mice will stil be a big problem.
We will also have even greater income disparity between neighborhoods and even more concentrated poverty.
In the end though, eventually this could happen. NYCHA is having hard economic times and the PJ's are only going to get worse in terms of maintaince. The perfect excuse to close some down. Just let the violation really rack up in those they want to get rid of if they have the means to. So eventually some complexes will close.
Those most at risk are developments like the Nathan Straus PJ's or Robbins Plaza PJ's in Manhattan located in high valued areas. The first is a small two building complex located just northwest of Stuy Town. There is another near it. East 23rd Streeet PJ's a single building. These two are at risk. The second mentioned the Robbins PJ's are for seniors and is located in on 70th and 1st Ave.
The bigger complexes in desireable areas I don't know. Chelsea PJ's are in a desireale neighborhood in terms of real estate. Crime is a big problem in this development considering it is so close to Times Square. I know the city would love to, but it's big. Big complex though. Amsterdam PJ's is another big complex in a desireable neighborhood, West Side.
On the Upper West Side there is a huge one Fredrick Douglas and a few more scattered around it but the I can't see them closing those. Maybe some of the smaller ones. Community will definately fight for those.
Areas they won't touch are north of E 96/W 110th. Way too many to displace. Huge complexes. You can close one but there will be another down the block so it's pointless.
Those along the east River in the LES. Too many.
Won't touch Red Hook PJ's, huge and isolated.
Won't touch Coney Island, too many.
Far Rock won't get touched, too many.
The Bronx, pretty much all the PJ's in the Bronx are in bad areas minus one senior complex in Country Club and a really big isolated complex is Throgs Neck way in the corner of the neighborhood. Has it's problems but it effects a small area. Pelham Pkwy and Marble Hill PJ's are in an areas not too bad but they are going down hill.
In Brooklyn, probably some smaller ones in more desireable areas of South Brooklyn.
Queens is at risk, same with Staten Island. Queensbridge and Stapleton are too big to close though along with a few others.