NYCHA cracking down on criminal tenants more than ever (Patterson: low income, crimes)

[HellUpInHarlem]

Before dawn on a chilly December morning, law enforcement swept through a South Bronx neighborhood with one of the highest concentrations of public housing in America. By morning’s end federal prosecutors unsealed charges against 48 gang members for selling drugs, murder and spreading a reign of terror across three housing projects with 9,400 tenants.
Within days the NYPD forwarded information electronically to the city Housing Authority to kick off the process of permanently excluding six tenants caught up in the takedown. That included Patterson Houses resident Jordan Rivera, 20, an alleged gang member charged with two crimes within the housing development.
Rivera’s exclusion is part of a more aggressive effort by the city to remove criminals from housing projects. After an NYPD officer was shot to death in October — allegedly by a felon living in a housing project — the Daily News reported that the city was slow to boot criminals from NYCHA properties.


NYCHA has dramatically ratcheted up its pursuit of criminal tenants, opening 481 new cases between Dec. 1 and May 1. That compares to 294 during the same time last year - a 64% jump.
NYCHA investigators are now handling double the number of eviction and expulsion cases, with 639 cases opened between Dec. 1 and April 1, up from 323 opened during the same period last year.
And NYCHA’s lawyers are handling far more cases as well: 478 cases assigned from Dec. 1 to April 1, up from 230 during the same time last year.


The referrals came in dribs and drabs, with cops literally walking over paperwork to NYCHA managers. And NYCHA also admitted they were taking forever to process the cases, once they got the paperwork.
Among recent improvements, the NYPD has ended its archaic practice of walking over paperwork to initiate tenant evictions. Now for the first time, all NYPD documents arrive at NYCHA electronically.
And in the coming months, the agency plans to hire more investigators and lawyers to further address this problem.

NYCHA cracking down on criminal tenants more than ever - NY Daily News

[jayden22]

Like they won't move back anyway.

[BradPiff]

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[Kefir King]

So then a housing agency can convict and levy a punishment (eviction) without a trial?
Sounds a bit above their pay grade.

[Shoshanarose]

This is great news.
For so long, nice and innocent families and older people in NYCHA housing have been terrorized by the gang members and drug dealers in their midst, fearful even to go into their hallways or spend any time outside in their neighborhoods for fear of getting caught in a crossfire/shooting. Enough is enough. Just because someone is low income doesn't mean they should have to live in fear in their own building/their own neighborhood, nor should their children.
It's time NYCHA housing was cleansed of its criminal element and reserved for those law abiding individuals and families who are low income.