Feds Slash NYCHA Funding by $35 Mill (New York, York: leasing, homes, vouchers)

[NyWriterdude]

Originally Posted by SeventhFloor

$844 per unit. Some of those units need thousands in repairs right now. So obviously the goal is not to fix them. The initial cut does not help, and the final cut will be the deepest one. It's all a cycle anyway. Homeless people sleeping outside million dollar apartment buildings - I see it every day.

They demolished the projects in Chicago, but the neighborhoods they moved them into became horribly crime ridden places, and Chicago's murder rate is much higher than NY. So if they starve the projects of funding for repairs till they crumble, I wonder where would they dump the people?

[Kefir King]

Doesn't CONGRESS, appropriate money, not the president?

[fedguy2]

Originally Posted by Bronxguyanese

NYCHA will have to sell properties and ground space to make up for the short fall of revenue,

Yeah, agreed. It was upsetting seeing people complain about loss of surface parking spaces for new mixed-income buildings where the revenue would have funded the dire backlog of repairs.

I view this as GREAT news, and I hope the new administration continues to cut. It will force NYCHA to make the right choices and not cave to the interests of the selfish few.

[fedguy2]

Originally Posted by Gantz

They don't need to raise rents. Just charge people utilities and eliminate NYCHA parking (seriously wtf.. subsidized parking?).

Those NYCHA parking lots should be going either market rate or be sold to developers.

Yes, thank you!! Thankful HUD is actually cutting funding to force NYCHA to do the right thing.

[Kefir King]

Originally Posted by livingsinglenyc

Maybe if the majority of people in Nycha building took care of the place and treated it with respect politicians would be more generous to Nycha. .

Maybe of they marched on the White House and Congress with torches and pitchforks and Molotov cocktails the politicians would be more "generous."

[Bronxguyanese]

It was populist who created nycha. Now it's up to populist to fix nycha.

[NyWriterdude]

Originally Posted by fedguy2

Yeah, agreed. It was upsetting seeing people complain about loss of surface parking spaces for new mixed-income buildings where the revenue would have funded the dire backlog of repairs.

I view this as GREAT news, and I hope the new administration continues to cut. It will force NYCHA to make the right choices and not cave to the interests of the selfish few.

You know the new administration backed by a Republican Congress will continue to cut. Trump won't cut social security and medicare because that would cause a huge rebellion among working class Americans, including those white working class people who voted for him. Basically social security and medicare are programs people WORK and PAY taxes into for their entire lives, so they've earned them in old age.

So Trump is going to cut the anti poverty programs like NYCHA.

PBS will be privatized and arts funding is gone.

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by NyWriterdude

So if they starve the projects of funding for repairs till they crumble, I wonder where would they dump the people?

Coney Island, Staten Island and Queens NYCHAs

[BoogeyDownDweller]

I swear if smack the shiit out of half the people on this thread talking about "oh this is good."
If you were saying this to my face not hiding like cowards on some online forum.
Go fucck you selves your dirty pieces of shiit.

You recognize that we are talking about people's homes here? People's communities? NYCHA already has a backlog of billions in needed repairs to roofs, boilers, walls, plumbing, grounds etc...? And that NYCHA is one of the only truly affordable housing options in NYC?

We should be putting money into NYCHA not taking it out. There is only one solution to this if Trump does this. Tax the rich and makes those asssholes pay for all the shiit they talk on this thread.

1.) expropriate Trump Towers and all Trump properties in New York. Use their sales to then fund public housing
2.) create income-based public water rates, Coned electric and gas rates, that raise funding for NYCHA
3.) institute a tax on Wall Street trading

[pierrepont7731]

Originally Posted by BoogeyDownDweller

I swear if smack the shiit out of half the people on this thread talking about "oh this is good."
If you were saying this to my face not hiding like cowards on some online forum.
Go fucck you selves your dirty pieces of shiit.

You recognize that we are talking about people's homes here? People's communities? NYCHA already has a backlog of billions in needed repairs to roofs, boilers, walls, plumbing, grounds etc...? And that NYCHA is one of the only truly affordable housing options in NYC?

We should be putting money into NYCHA not taking it out. There is only one solution to this if Trump does this. Tax the rich and makes those asssholes pay for all the shiit they talk on this thread.

1.) expropriate Trump Towers and all Trump properties in New York. Use their sales to then fund public housing
2.) create income-based public water rates, Coned electric and gas rates, that raise funding for NYCHA
3.) institute a tax on Wall Street trading

You're referring to me, and yes I said it's good because it is. When the Bronx was burning, people were forced out, and numerous communities went down the drain. Now we're seeing a re-birth of what the Bronx once was, a great place for true middle class and upper class residents with lower crime and housing stock being revitalized, and you're complaining about that?

NYCHA is a sham. If you have to be propped up by others then you can't afford to live here, and I for one am tired of my tax dollars being wasted on such nonsense. NYCHA is an endless money pit that will never work until it's torn down and revamped from the bottom up.