Sentences with phrase «of public housing tenants»

Both have spent most of their adult lives advocating for the rights of the poor in East St. Louis, particularly for the rights of public housing tenants.

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.

A staggering 80 % of public housing tenants lost heat or hot water this winter.

There's been a year - over-year increase in the number of public housing tenants suing the New York City Housing Authority for delayed repairs, New York...

Not exact matches

Cadman says that even the public - housing manager is coming around to his way of thinking in regard to tenant composition.

«Right to Buy landlords» include not only local housing authorities, but also Registered Social Landlords registered with the Housing Corporation (secure tenants only), fire authorities, passenger transport executives, Government Departments, the NHS and a wide range of other public housing authorities, but also Registered Social Landlords registered with the Housing Corporation (secure tenants only), fire authorities, passenger transport executives, Government Departments, the NHS and a wide range of other public Housing Corporation (secure tenants only), fire authorities, passenger transport executives, Government Departments, the NHS and a wide range of other public bodies.

Since 2011, Keith has worked for City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, Sr. helping to advocate for after school funding, expanded Advanced Placement, prevent bullying of LGBT students in public schools, secure funding for employment and workforce programs, create new affordable housing, and preserve the quality of life on the Upper East Side, In 2006, Keith was the tenant organizer for the «Preserve Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village» campaign during the sale of the neighborhood to Tishman Speyer.

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After hearing from both the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority administration and its management company, Common Council members are no closer to understanding how some public housing tenants were left without heat and hot water in the middle of Housing Authority administration and its management company, Common Council members are no closer to understanding how some public housing tenants were left without heat and hot water in the middle of housing tenants were left without heat and hot water in the middle of winter.

The suit was filed in April on behalf of two tenants who say they went without heat during a particularly frigid winter, but Legal Aid is looking to represent any of the approximately 323,000 public housing tenants who were in similar predicaments at some point over the winter.

«Our private capital slum clearance requires public housing to take care of displaced tenants of the lowest incomes,» Mr. Dagen Bloom quotes Moses as saying.

Rep. Brian Higgins encountered anger and frustration from some Commodore Perry public housing tenants when he held a press conference there to tout his idea of renovating rows of empty, rundown apartments into low - and moderate - income units — and perhaps some market - rate housing, as well.

From his time working at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration to his work on the City Council to reform 421a and end discrimination against Section 8 tenants to his work as Public Advocate to crack down on bad landlords, no one has done more to fight for affordable safe housing for all New Yorkers.Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration to his work on the City Council to reform 421a and end discrimination against Section 8 tenants to his work as Public Advocate to crack down on bad landlords, no one has done more to fight for affordable safe housing for all New Yorkers.housing for all New Yorkers.»

In a follow - up to the debate, Gotham Gazette asked Stringer's office about his apparent openness to some home ownership among NYCHA tenants and what that might mean for a privatization of the nation's largest public housing system.

The head of the NYC Council's Public Housing Committee, Bronx Councilman Richie Torres, will propose a new law requiring NYCHA to clean up all apartments with lead paint instead of waiting for tenants to move out.

The LibDems and Tories should promise low - income, public sector tenants that they will bring back a programme of heavily discounted council house sales.

At 11 a.m., dozens of of housing advocates and tenants will join with elected officials to announce a «scathing new report that exposes statistical evidence of Airbnb's negative impact on affordable housing in NYC,» Public Advocate Tish James will speak, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

1210 - A requiring diaper changing stations in new and renovated buildings with public restrooms, regardless of gender; Intro 1241 - A to create a watch list of rent regulated buildings housing tenants at - risk for eviction, City Hall, Blue Room, Manhattan.

In addition to supporting the legislation in the current Council session for accessible ferries and taxis, Gerson introduced a housing preservation measure for Section 8 and public housing tenants so that they can have the right of first refusal to buy their apartments if they go on the market, and is gearing up to introduce «grab - bar» legislation so that seniors and people with disabilities can have accessible, safe bathrooms in their residences.

Cuomo and lawmakers, however, also agreed to install an independent monitor to oversee NYCHA, a step that was sought by tenants of the authority, but vehemently opposed by the public housing agency.

«I was thrilled to see such a diverse range of residents in my district participating in the process this year including formerly incarcerated youth, public housing tenants, and members of our immigrant community,» said Council Member Melissa Mark - Viverito.

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.

Earlier today, New York City Public Advocate Letitia «Tish» James delivered fiery remarks at the Parkash Tenant Coalition news conference and rally in front of the Bronx Housing Court on the Grand Concourse.

The day unfolded as a series of public declarations from the governor and Mayor de Blasio presenting alternative narratives about who was doing the most for public housing tenants.

PILLARS, a Harlem - based holistic recovery center, is partnering with Safe in Harlem, the New York Police Department (NYPD), ThriveNYC, the Army National Guard Counter-Drug Task Force and the office of Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer to educate public housing tenants that marijuana smoking can be harmful to fetal development.

After three decades of Andrew Cuomo's political involvement in New York City, we do welcome his new interest in helping our city's public housing tenants.»

At 9:15 a.m., the Parkash Tenant Coalition, a coalition of tenants from 15 of landlord Ved Parkash's buildings, publicly announces its formation, holds a press conference, and rallies with the support of NYC Public Advocate Tish James to seek justice, after they claim 2,369 violations in 11 of his 43 buildings, Bronx Housing Court, 1118 Grand Concourse, the Bronx.

At 9 a.m., tenants and housing activists demand no public land or removal of deed restrictions should go to for - profit developers, front of City Hall gates, 1 - 15 Centre St., Manhattan.

She promised to help lead the battle for tenant rights, for the survival of small businesses and for the sustainability of public housing.

Meanwhile, Gov. Andrew Cuomo played political hardball of his own at the Bronx's Forest Houses, where he positioned himself as the real protector of low - income public housing tenants.

2.30 pm: Lord Kerslake, the former head of the civil sevice, gives evidence to the public accounts committee about extending right to buy to housing association tenants.

Mr. Cuomo has visited public housing complexes in the city three times in the past few weeks, always with cameras and supporters in tow, blasting what he has called the authority's mismanagement and abuse of tenants.

«Throughout her career in public service, Carolyn Maloney has been an effective proponent for, and defender of, affordable housing, rent regulation and tenant protection,» the campaign said.

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.

Ms. Cancel, who works in the office of the city comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, has picked up endorsements from two local Democratic city councilwomen, Margaret Chin and Rosie Mendez, who have praised her deep roots in the district and her work on tenants» rights issues in public housing.

But he kept a «worst landlords» watch list while he was the city's public advocate, and a central promise of his mayoral campaign was to protect low - income tenants and make housing more affordable for the poor and working class.

LawHelpNY is proud to announce a new series of resources designed to help public housing tenants in New York City successfully get repairs from NYCHA, the city's public housing authority.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson wants Americans living on housing assistance to put more of their income toward rent and he wants to give public housing authorities the ability to impose work requirements on tHousing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson wants Americans living on housing assistance to put more of their income toward rent and he wants to give public housing authorities the ability to impose work requirements on thousing assistance to put more of their income toward rent and he wants to give public housing authorities the ability to impose work requirements on thousing authorities the ability to impose work requirements on tenants.

The city will use the 1962 Speigel law, which allows it to cease rent payments on behalf of tenants living on public assistance should their building have a number of housing violations, as a «back to the future kind of solution» to dealing with bad landlords, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday.

Members of the Independent Democratic Conference also released a new report, «Public Housing Peril: The Need to Hold NYCHA Accountable,» on poor NYCHA conditions and the slow responses to requests from tenants to remedy their complaints.

In more than a dozen interviews with The Daily Orange, public housing tenants living by I - 81 in the low - income, majority black East Adams Street neighborhood expressed increasing frustration and anxiety with what several called an unnecessary delay of the interstate's replacement project.

Lasher said his campaign will focus on issues like housing, strengthening rent laws and protecting tenants, building «a new generation of Mitchell - Lama - style housing» and ending state income tax for public school teachers.

She was also grilled over the cold this winter, as four out of five public housing tenants in the city lost heat or hot water as aging boilers broke down.

Albany, NY — State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester), New York City Council Member Ritchie Torres, Chair of the Committee on Public Housing, Senator Diane Savino (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn), Senator Adriano Espaillat (D - Manhattan / Bronx), Democratic Ranking Member of the Senate Housing Committee, and more than 500 hundred New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) tenants, today rallied at the state capitol to call for increased state funding to update and repair deplorable conditions in NYCHA developments in the Bronx and beyond.

NYCHA residents, including tenants of the Pelham Parkway, Throggs Neck and Sack Wern Houses, together with housing advocates Community Voices Heard and Real Affordability For All, filled the Million Dollar Staircase to decry current conditions and push for new investments in the nation's largest public housing stock.

Following the rally, Public Advocate James will visit Brooklyn Housing Court to ensure tenants are aware of their rights and then tour one of the buildings on the Worst Landlord Watchlist.».

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.

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.

On behalf of the residents of public housing in District 16, I'm grateful for the opportunity to have been a part of this Task Force to ensure that tenants» priorities remain at the forefront of our discussions.

Usually, the tenant pays up to 30 percent of their income in rent and a local public housing agency makes up the difference.