Sentences with phrase «paint inspections»

First, the authority failed to conduct lead paint inspections.

My brokerage company has been involved in over 100 transactions on properties built before 1978 and I have never had a client do a lead based paint inspection.

False filings with the federal government over lead paint inspections.

Nycha has come under scrutiny for its management after failing to conduct required lead paint inspections for four years.

Back in November, the city's Department of Investigation reported that NYCHA submitted false certifications for lead paint inspections in recent years.

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.

NEW YORK — The New York City Housing Authority chair is under fire as the Department of Investigations is looking into allegations that Shola Olatoye lied under oath about lead paint inspections at a City Council meeting, the Daily News reports.

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...

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.

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.

Following recent reports regarding falsified documents related to lead paint inspections by the agency, Council Member Salamanca announced the introduction of a resolution urging the creation of an independent monitor to oversee NYCHA operations.

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

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.

The chair of the housing authority is also under fire for signing paperwork certifying that apartments underwent lead paint inspections over a four - year period, when they did not.

In a slap at Mayor de Blasio, Gov. Cuomo plans to increase state enforcement of housing developments following the lead paint inspection fiasco at the New York City Housing Authority...

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

New York City Housing Authority Chair Shola Olatoye was notified of problems with her agency's lead - paint inspections as early as October 2015 — six months before she claimed she learned...

Some elected officials and tenant leaders have called for the resignation of NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye who certified NYCHA was in compliance on lead paint inspections when she knew it wasn't.

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.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said that he wished he disclosed to the public and the 400,000 New York City Housing Authority residents that the agency failed to conduct mandatory lead paint inspections despite the fact that he was made aware of the non-compliance in April 2016.

Shola Olatoye, chairwoman of the Housing Authority, is expected to testify on Tuesday at a City Council hearing looking into how and why the lead paint inspections stopped.

She is shown at a council hearing on lead - based paint inspections in NYCHA housing on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017.

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.

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.

Grants buyers a 10 - day period in which to conduct a lead - based paint inspection at their own expense, although no testing or removal of lead - based paint is required by the law.

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.

Mayor Bill de Blasio blamed everyone but the chair of the New York City Housing Authority — namely, the city Department of Investigation, the media and NYCHA middle managers — in defending her Wednesday for providing false testimony to the City Council on lead paint inspections at 4,200 apartments with kids.

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.

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.

De Blasio again defended Olatoye who had falsely certified that lead - paint inspections had been conducted in thousands of apartments — even as he was showing her the door.

At 8:45 a.m., the NYCHA Citywide Council of Presidents and At - Risk Community Services hold a press conference on the motion by NYCHA tenants for a preliminary injunction demanding lead paint inspections, New York Supreme Court, 60 Centre St. Manhattan.

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

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

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.

NYCHA Chair and CEO Shola Olatoye has been at the center of a firestorm lately related to the public housing authority's lapses in lead paint inspections, violating federal and city laws, filing faulty documentation, and not telling NYCHA residents and the public about the

Shola Olatoye said she did it on her own: the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) chairwoman told city council members Tuesday that she did not consult with top city officials about signing federal documents falsely stating that her agency had conducted lead paint inspections, even though it had not.

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.

«There's an issue of credibility here,» said the judge — a week after the agency's chair, Shola Olatoye, stepped down amid accusations that she'd lied about lead paint inspections for some 55,000 units.

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.

Shola Olatoye, the chairwoman of the New York City Housing Authority, said Tuesday that she's resigning because it's the right time to go, not because of scandals over false lead - paint inspections and failing boilers or looming oversight by the state and federal government.

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.

The Trump administration is curbing New York City's ability to spend money on major repairs to its public housing stock in its first major response to deteriorating conditions in the city's public housing and a scandal over false paperwork the city submitted about lead paint inspections.

The NYC Housing Authority has a new tactic in its struggle to address its lead - paint inspection scandal: Blame the tenants.

Thousands of private landlords have successfully tracked lead - paint inspections for more than two decades using a proprietary software program — and now they're offering to share it with the hapless New York City Housing Authority, which has been struggling with compliance issues.

The embattled chairwoman of the New York City Housing Authority faced withering questioning at the City Council about lapses in lead - paint inspections, and she struggled to explain communication failures that left the public uninformed about the risks they posed.

De Blasio said that he expected a federal monitor could be appointed to supervise the city's vast Housing Authority, as he acknowledged that the city had failed for years to do required lead - paint inspections in thousands of public - housing apartments.

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.

The Department of Investigation has found that the chair of public housing lied under oath about the housing agency's lead paint inspections in 2016.