Sentences with phrase «inspections of public housing»

De Blasio announced the trip Monday — the same day he finally took questions on why the city failed, for years, to follow its own laws and federal rules requiring lead paint inspections of public housing apartments.

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NYC Public Advocate Letitia James has launched her own investigation into the Housing Authority's failure to perform required lead paint inspections of its aging apartments, bringing the number of probes into this issue to three.

On November 15, the DOI released the results of an investigation detailing how NYCHA failed to inspect for the hazardous paint at its public housing facilities, and also submitted false documentation to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) stating that the agency was in compliance with federal laws requiring the inspections to be perhousing facilities, and also submitted false documentation to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) stating that the agency was in compliance with federal laws requiring the inspections to be perHousing and Urban Development (HUD) stating that the agency was in compliance with federal laws requiring the inspections to be performed.

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The embattled head of the city's public housing authority was grilled at a city council hearing Tuesday over her agency's failure to conduct mandatory lead paint inspections for years.

With the scope of the health risks still unclear, a class - action case against New York City, in connection with the failure to conduct lead inspections in public housing, is now being prepared by a lead lawyer for families suing over lead poisoning in Flint, Mich..

In the wake of the ongoing controversy over the de Blasio administration's failure to conduct lead paint inspections, IDC Leader Jeff Klein is pushing for passage of a bill to create an independent monitor of the city's public housing.

Public Advocate Letitia James has launched her own investigation into the Housing Authority's failure to perform required lead paint inspections of its aging apartments.

Inspections have turned up numerous instances of dangerous lead - paint levels in the city's public housing.

NYCHA tenants who are leaders of Metro Industrial Areas Foundation and New York City Councilmembers launched an inspection tour of NYCHA properties citywide to highlight dangerous conditions in homes and apartment buildings inside public housing.

For more than a year, Mayor de Blasio concealed from the public and 400,000 public housing tenants, the city Housing Authority's failure to perform legally mandated lead - paint inspections in thousands of aparhousing tenants, the city Housing Authority's failure to perform legally mandated lead - paint inspections in thousands of aparHousing Authority's failure to perform legally mandated lead - paint inspections in thousands of apartments.

In response to the devolving condition of New York's public housing and the recent lead paint inspection scandal, the federal government is taking a firm stance.

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 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 housing system.

Mr. Cuomo, the mayor said, had acted vindictively toward the city, citing cuts in state financing for public housing and what he called an abrupt ramp - up of state inspections of city homeless shelters «with a vigor we had never seen before.»

In August 2012, NYCHA suspended annual general inspections of apartments when a new HUD rule loosened a requirement that public housing authorities conduct yearly inspections of every apartment, according to a NYCHA fact sheet released by the de Blasio administration on Monday morning.

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violHousing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violhousing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

While thousands of public housing tenants were told last year that lead paint inspections were necessary, the city did not disclose the reason: It had stopped doing the required tests four years earlier.

Its findings showed that many of the city's public housing elevators did not pass the Housing Authority's inspehousing elevators did not pass the Housing Authority's inspeHousing Authority's inspections.

In recent inspections of 4,200 public housing apartments with possible lead paint and tenants with a child under age 6, more than half were found to have damaged paint.

Then last week a state judge hearing a lawsuit by public housing residents ordered the agency to conduct thousands of missed lead inspections within 90 days.