Sentences with phrase «nycha lead paint inspections»

James demanded data on all NYCHA lead paint inspections since January 2013, and all communications between NYCHA and the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office.

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NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye had earlier come under fire for blowing off mandatory lead paint inspections, then lying to the feds about it.

The group pointed to the revelations that NYCHA submitted false certifications for lead paint inspections in recent years and that 80 percent of NYCHA tenants, or more than 323,000 residents, went without heat or hot water at some point this winter as examples of how NYCHA has allegedly failed to protect the health and safety of its tenants.

Olatoye has come under fire in recent months for conditions in NYCHA developments, as well as providing false information regarding lead paint inspections and misleading testimony at a City Council hearing.

NYCHA is not a city agency, but the mayor appoints its board and chairperson — and has been aware for more than two years of NYCHA's longtime noncompliance with required lead paint inspections.

Last year, Olatoye and NYCHA were scrutinized by the federal government for having signed a certification in 2016 attesting that inspections for lead paint in tens of thousands of units had been performed, though they hadn't.

«NYCHA's false reporting on lead paint inspections represents a collapse of credibility in the public mind.

Walden said he only learned that NYCHA was still using Maximo when he read an April 12 affidavit from an agency adviser, Shireen Riazi Kermani, saying that the authority keeps records of lead - paint inspections on the software system.

It appears a NYCHA worker forged a woman's signature after the birth of her twin daughters so it would appear a lead paint inspection had occurred when it never did.

NYCHA was also criticized following the disclosure that the head of the authority, Shola Olatoye, had falsely told the federal government that lead - paint inspections mandated by law had been conducted.

Amid an escalating outcry over false reports related to lead paint inspections at NYCHA apartments, the de Blasio administration announced two senior authority officials had resigned and another had been demoted.

NYCHA chairwoman Shola Olatoye did not tell the truth during her sworn testimony about lead paint inspections before the city council last month, a letter from the Department of Investigation obtained by the Daily News reveals.

Cuomo has been railing in recent weeks against NYCHA's mounting woes under de Blasio's leadership, including defective boilers that kept residents shivering through winter, mold and a scandal over false claims of lead - paint inspections.

He also took a clear shot at his political nemesis, Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has refused calls to fire NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye over scandals including falsified lead - paint inspections, broken boilers and rampant drug dealing.

City investigators went as far as to recommend an independent integrity monitor to ensure NYCHA is performing lead paint and other inspections, according to a home health aide who frequently works with NYCHA tenants.

Embattled NYCHA chair Shola Olatoye — who faced strong criticism for her handling of lead paint inspections and poor living conditions — is stepping down from her post, City Hall...

Last year authority managers admitted that for years NYCHA had misled the federal housing agency that funds most of its operations by falsely claiming it had performed all required lead paint inspections of its aging apartments.

Shola Olatoye, the chair and CEO of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), talks to In Focus Host Cheryl Wills about the housing authority not conducting lead paint inspections for years, and the scandal over Olatoye falsely submitting paperwork that NYCHA had conducted inspections.

NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye faced a hostile City Council Tuesday over lead - paint inspection lies.

«NYCHA should be more concerned with lead - paint inspections and less with public relations.»

As Mayor Bill de Blasio and leaders of the embattled New York City Housing Authority continue to respond to fallout from revelations that NYCHA had failed for years to comply with federal and local laws around lead paint inspections, some elected officials are renewing calls for the state take a more active role in the city's massive public housing system.

NYCHA has come under fire in the last few weeks for failing to perform required lead paint inspections and relying on untrained workers to inspect and remediate apartments for the toxic substance.

Residents of Red Hook Houses in Brooklyn got «breach of lease» notices after NYCHA found lead paint during inspections.

NYCHA stopped doing required annual lead paint inspections in 2012 in violation of local law and federal regulations.

Even after NYCHA officials discovered in mid-2016 that they had been violating city and federal laws requiring lead paint inspections since late 2012, they never informed tenants about the dangerous lapse.

Embattled NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye returned to the scene of the crime Tuesday, appearing before the same City Council members she'd misinformed about lead paint inspections during a prior hearing under oath.

NEW YORK, NY (11/16/2017)(readMedia)-- Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) were aware that the agency's inspectors were not checking apartments for lead paint, but signed off on paperwork certifying that the inspections had been completed anyway.

During a Dec. 5 Council hearing on NYCHA's longstanding failure to perform required lead paint inspections, Olatoye stated under oath that 4,200 inspections performed in 2016 had been completed by NYCHA workers with federally required certification.

It began with a Department of Investigation report in November saying she had knowingly falsified federal reports about inspections for lead paint, and DOI commissioner Mark Peters later accused Olatoye of misleading the City Council in February when she testified under oath about the training NYCHA employees received to do lead paint inspections.