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Check this out - article in link has no pay wall. There are tens of thousands of NYCHA residents who owe back rent. Even before the pandemic, 35% of NYCHA owed back rent so Covid is no excuse.
Also there's an anecdote in the article about a NYCHA tenant whose rent is $900 a month and she's $3000 behind. She tried to apply for a federal program that gives rent relief but the program puts public housing tenants at the end of the line FOR GOOD REASON. Why should someone already getting a huge subsidy then take federal relief money that could go to someone who isn't getting subsidized and maybe has a $2200 rent for the same sort of apartment. And of course that $900/mo tenant is complaining.
...More than 68,000 households, roughly 42 percent of all households living in public housing, had overdue rent as of November 2021, according to the agency.
The bleak picture has left many residents fearful that they may eventually lose their homes, deepening the city’s housing crisis.
“I’m scared that I’m going to get evicted,” said Eileen Dominick, who lives in NYCHA’s Red Hook Houses development in Brooklyn and says she owes more than $3,000. “I wouldn’t know what to do. I wouldn’t have anywhere to go. I wouldn’t be able to afford an apartment with the market today.”
The fear is also fueled by NYCHA’s past practices. Between 2016 and 2018, more than 40,000 evictions cases were filed against NYCHA tenants annually, according to data from the New York State Office of Court Administration collected by the Housing Data Coalition and the Right to Counsel Coalition. The cases stemmed from missed rent payments as well as issues like property damage.
NYCHA sent an email to residents last month saying that it planned to “restart nonpayment eviction proceedings” after the state’s eviction moratorium expired in mid-January.
But housing authority officials now acknowledge that filing a huge number of lawsuits could overwhelm courtrooms and hurt tenants. Officials said they would instead focus on a smaller group that owed a large amount of rent from before the pandemic...
Or BIG, if he was still alive, would do well. Very experienced in this matter according to his own lyrics. "Kick in the door, waving the four-four
All you heard was Poppa don't hit me no more"
"New York City’s public housing system is the largest in the nation. Its official population of about 350,000 is larger than the cities of Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Orlando."
"Before moving to the Red Hook Houses 25 years ago, Ms. Dominick said she had been homeless. Public housing, she added, is the only home she can afford in New York".
25 YEARS?! 25 YEARS?! and not a single thing was done to improve her circumstances?
She needs to move somewhere cheaper and give some one else on the waitlist a chance to avail themselves of TEMPORARY cheap rent until they get on their feet. No grown able bodied adult should be allowed to live in NYCHA for 25 years. Yuck!
"Raquel Thomas, 30, who lives in the Ocean Bay Apartments in Queens, had already fallen behind on rent in 2019. She had problems receiving her disability benefits, she said. Ms. Thomas was pregnant at the time and did not have a job"
"Raquel Thomas, 30, who lives in the Ocean Bay Apartments in Queens, had already fallen behind on rent in 2019. She had problems receiving her disability benefits, she said. Ms. Thomas was pregnant at the time and did not have a job"
Pregnant and did not have a job. Why is anyone pregnant without a job? She is a moron, her kid will be a moron and that kids kid will be a moron too. See the pattern?
New York, New York. If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere…
If you can’t make it in NYCHA, well…you can’t make it anywhere.
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