Should NYCHA(the projects) increase income limits to change its image? (New York: apartments, crime)
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Bringing in tenants of working to middle class could help its image of crime and neglect. NYCHA could def use the money of the tenants to maintain these buildings.
Bringing in tenants of working to middle class could help its image of crime and neglect. NYCHA could def use the money of the tenants to maintain these buildings.
Won't happen. Interesting idea though. Reward those who work and attempt to finance their own lives.
As a product of bushwick projects in the 80's, i wish they would do drug testing every yr along with imposing child limit per household.
Honestly NYCHA could fix a lot of social ills just by ceasing to issue larger apartments to families with obscene amounts of kids.
We live in a world where families with 6 figure incomes are intelligently moving away from producing large broods beginning at a young age, while the destitute government dependents pump them out like candy machines as soon as the necessary organs ripen. Wonderful isn't it?
Many of the NYCHA projects *HAD* large numbers of stable middle class families. Teachers, FDNY, NYPD, USPS, nurses, etc.... Problem is that some projects were "too" nice (and quite frankly White/European) to some of the usual suspects so lawsuits were launched. Lord and behold it turned out New York City/NYCHA *was* steering persons to particular housing based upon race and IIRC a few other factors.
As part of the settlement NYCHA had to open up the "better" projects such as Todt Hill and South Beach Houses on SI to a host of lower income, formerly homeless, etc... that were given priority. Well you see what that has lead to... most NYCHA houses range from fair to dreadful condition and all of the blame cannot be laid at the feet of NYCHA.NYC.
Under Bloomberg plans were announced IIRC to make efforts to bring in more "middle income" families but again the usual suspects went on about homeless, domestic violence suffers, the poor and so forth. In short they fought and will continue to fight any efforts to remove those groups from first priority to any available units.
Only way any meaningful changing of NYCHA's image is going to happen is if most of those estates are emptied out, torn down and start fresh with some sort of mixed-income housing. Boston did this and the results have been quite good.
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