Sentences with phrase «many public housing residents»

NYC public housing residents got some good news in the budget, including $ 250 million to upgrade apartments and a special procurement work - around to get the job done faster.

At 12:30 p.m., the New York Housing Conference, Rep. Joe Crowley, members of Congress, advocacy groups, and local public housing residents, will hold a press conference to oppose Trump's proposed budget cuts to affordable housing and launch the #TrumpRentHike Calculator, Woodside Houses Park, 50th Street between Newtown Road and Broadway, Woodside, Queens

Barber said that public housing residents are tired of living in decrepit conditions and are banding together to fight for improvements through efforts like the recent lawsuit filed by CCOP and At - Risk Community Services.

Rapper Ja Rule joined local elected officials and public housing residents from across NYC at a rally Tuesday to call for investment and immediate renovations to NYCHA's failing heating systems.

«There's uncertainty about what the state of those centers is going to be,» said Mr. Torres, a native of public housing, claiming many public housing residents have complained of their dealings with private contractors.

According to The New York Times, the de Blasio administration and NYCHA chief Shola Olatoye are planning to stare down the city's estimated 400,000 public housing residents over one of their chief perks: $ 10 reserved parking spots.

«Sal stands against the transfer station because it would hurt the neighborhood, hurt public housing residents, and hurt kids from around the city who play at Asphalt Green,» an Albanese spokesman told DNAinfo New York.

«Now that he's been elected, the answer is clear: New York's housing safety net is at grave risk under this president, whose policies would further marginalize public housing residents by choking off critically - needed federal funds.

The former NYPD officer convicted of manslaughter for shooting an unarmed public housing resident as he entered a darkened stairwell in Brooklyn in 2014 does not pose a threat to the public and should not be sentenced to prison, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson, who prosecuted him.

«Every public housing resident deserves to live in habitable housing that provides them with respect and dignity,» said City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who helped conduct an oversight hearing of NYCHA at the Council.

«This is a pattern we've seen in the state of New York, and under this governor, where there's a lot of talk about helping public housing residents, but we don't see real resources,» the mayor said on WNYC radio.

That was the message of public housing residents, community groups and elected officials who rallied at City Hall on Thurs., Jan. 29 to campaign for increased city and state funding for the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) properties.

Nixon has tried to make it clear she's not just a celebrity candidate, visiting public housing residents in Brooklyn and meeting with residents upstate in Hoosick Falls about contaminated water.

Housing needs, such as affordable housing and housing for special populations (the homeless, the elderly, disabled persons, persons living with AIDS, and public housing residents), and community and economic development needs, such as transportation, jobs, community facilities and infrastructure (sewer, water and roads), will be prime topics for discussion at the forums.

The depth of participation among budget delegates, particularly youth and public housing residents, was something that really moved me, and makes me very excited to implement PB in San Juan.

LOWER EAST SIDE — Most public housing residents on the Lower East Side said they do not feel protected from trespassers in their home, a new report revealed Thursday.

«New York City public housing residents deserve to live in clean, safe homes, and I have been proud to work towards a reinvestment in the New York City Housing Authority» the senator said.

One day after an NYPD officer was convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting an unarmed public housing resident while on patrol there, Mayor Bill de Blasio said those patrols are essential to protecting public housing residents.

«It's where police officers lived in public housing, they build strong relationships with public housing residents and crime went down dramatically.»

«Community Voices Heard is glad that there is a call for Albany to dedicate more funding to NYCHA, especially given that a real commitment on their part has been missing for a number of years and we believe that this funding is a great starting point,» said Ann Valdez, a public housing resident and member of Community Voices Heard.

Some public housing residents told PIX11 News that they weren't surprised to learn the audit's results.

At City Hall yesterday, City Council member Rosie Mendez, along with fellow lawmakers and public housing residents, blasted the New York Daily News for a series of articles critical of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).

That was the message of public housing residents, community groups and elected officials who rallied at City Hall on...

«But many public housing residents are worried by the violence they've seen where they live.

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

Though the mayor didn't mention the recent various woes of the New York City Housing Authority, he made a point of saying that his administration is focused on the «400,000 public housing residents who have not gotten a fair shake in a long time.»

NYCHA has recently been plagued by a lead paint scandal, as well as problems with heating systems and boilers that left public housing residents without heat or hot water on some of the coldest days of the winter.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says public housing residents deserve the «very best living standard» with which the city can provide them «with the money we have» amid criticism over the failure of New York City Housing Authority's (NYCHA) boilers and heating systems.

He introduced and enacted legislation on a wide range of issues including expanding job opportunities for public housing residents; protecting the City's affordable housing stock; improving mental health resources for the LGBT community, and establishing work standards for industrial laundromats.

CVH's work includes organizing campaigns with public assistance recipients and public housing residents fighting for their communities through campaigns on job creation, public investment, fair taxation, and more.

Public housing residents and their supporters rally to demand New York City Housing Authority conditions be improved outside of City Hall.

Public housing residents are insisting that Mayor Bill de Blasio is keeping them silenced...

«Public housing residents have suffered deteriorating living conditions for too long.

The governor needs to step up and allocate significant funds to address the over $ 70 million in backlog of repairs to allow public housing residents to live in dignity.

When asked whether she holds de Blasio responsible given a lead paint scandal under NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye and 323,000 public housing residents being deprived of heat and hot water during the winter, she said everyone is responsible.

A day after a Brooklyn jury convicted NYPD Officer Peter Liang of manslaughter in the killing of public housing resident Akai Gurley, Mayor Bill de Blasio defended the kind of routine stairwell search that precipitated the 28 - year - old unarmed man's death in 2014.

For years public housing residents in New York City felt abandoned.

Even if funds were available, neighbors Monday complained the apartments still may not be affordable to public housing residents under Higgins» plan.

Fixing the management issues at the authority falls on Mr. de Blasio, yet Mr. Cuomo could make it easier for the authority to buy and install things such as boilers that would improve life for public housing residents, Mr. Torres said.

What our public housing residents actually need from the Governor are real resources, not rhetoric.»

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.

Last week, the governor pledged not to sign any budget that does not include sufficient and immediate remedies for public housing residents.

On this important late winter New York Sunday, he promised, «I will remember where I came from, I will remember the struggles that I faced, I will remember the adversity, and when difficult decisions have to be made, I will do it remembering all of you of course, but also the folks who aren't here today, the single mom working two jobs, the public housing resident living in conditions that are not acceptable, the family whose landlord is harassing them, trying to deregulate where they live.

If you live in public housing following divorce, you may be eligible for a public housing resident ownership program through HUD Section 32.

Providing artists with affordable spaces while offering arts programming to underserved populations like the homeless and public housing residents as well as the youth, senior and immigrant populations that frequent libraries, would be a win - win.

Created education and outreach initiatives to address three identified impediments, which were the significantly higher declination rate for African - Americans and Hispanics, underrepresented populations in fair housing complaints and underrepresented populations among public housing residents.

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In the same vein, he is working on the link between residential environment and well - being of public housing residents, using participatory research methods.

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But a recent study suggested their removal helped make crime even worse in neighborhoods where public - housing residents relocated.

Another agency available to residents is the Massachusetts Housing Partnership (MHP), a public non-profit for affordable hHousing Partnership (MHP), a public non-profit for affordable housinghousing.