Sentences with phrase «public housing authorities»

The program allows local public housing authorities to sell housing units to individuals or families who qualify.

The New York City Housing Authority is the largest public housing authority in North America.

The governor sharply criticized NYCHA's management and the «maze of bureaucracy» for the dire conditions at the largest public housing authority in North America, housing about 400,000 people, and called on the City Council to make specific requests regarding how to quickly fix the situation.

The embattled New York City public housing authority CEO, Shola Olatoye, is resigning on Tuesday from her post, a report suggests, and Mayor Bill de Blasio (D - New York City) is expected to name Stanley Brezenoff as interim CEO of the New York City Housing Authority, or NYCHA.

The Arizona Public Housing Authority (APHA) is a good example, because it offers a couple of the options mentioned above — grants and second mortgage loans.

«Model Statement Of Procurement Policy For Public Housing authorities Operating hi New Jersey», (Co-Author)

«That one - to - one approach ended and allowed for HOPE VI to come about as a different model to help public housing authorities replace these developments and build mixed - income neighborhoods.»

The HUD inspector general is conducting a wide - ranging audit into how Buffalo's public housing authority spent tens of millions of dollars over the past two years.

City officials, however, argued Cuomo's administration had missed opportunities to assist the cash - strapped public housing authority.

ALBANY — Mayor Bill de Blasio asked the State Legislature today to find $ 300 million more for the city's chronically - underfunded public housing authority, one prong of his agenda to protect the city's affordable housing stock.

He also worked as a policy analyst on a New York education task force, and as a consultant with public housing authorities and child support enforcement agencies around the country.

The United States Department of Justice and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) are giving a total of $ 1.75 million to public housing authorities across the country for the program.

«The governor is correct that the only housing authority that got direct grants to their housing authority was NYCHA,» said William Simmons, president of the New York State Public Housing Authority Directors Association, which represents the majority of housing authorities in the state.

About $ 6.4 million goes to 13 state - supervised public housing authorities in New York state each year through this program, according to the Division of Budget.

A quarter - billion - dollar package to rescue the city's deteriorating public housing authority, Nycha.

The Council is also insisting on another $ 2.45 billion in capital funding over four years for the embattled public housing authority, NYCHA, to repair heating and water systems and to build more senior housing.

Public Advocate Letitia James let loose on the head of the city's troubled public housing authority — and Mayor de Blasio's defense of her — in an interview aired Sunday...

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 tenants.

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.

Hawkins criticized Governor Cuomo's 5 - year $ 20 - billion housing investment program announced in 2016 because almost all of the money goes to private developers as grants, tax credits, or low - interest loans instead of going to municipal public housing authorities.

Time for feds to act Fifty - one members of Congress nearly three months ago wrote on February 12, 2016 to federal Secretary of Housing & Urban Development Julian Castro, asking Castro «to prohibit public housing authorities from requiring declawing as a condition of residency for tenants with cats.»

HUD once directed public housing authorities not to rent their subsidized apartments to residents who failed criminal background checks.

HUD officials say CNI uses a comprehensive approach that involves local leaders, residents and other stakeholders, such as public housing authorities, cities, schools, police, business owners, nonprofits and private developers — who are required to come up with a Transformation Plan.

«Choice Neighborhoods is an outgrowth of the HOPE VI, which was a way to help public housing authorities around the country deal with severely distressed public housing stocks that were located in parts of their cities that had very few opportunities for anything as simple and basic as a grocery story.

Michaels Development, for example, was awarded a 748 - unit housing project by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to redevelop the Kuhio Park Terrace and Kuhio Homes public housing projects in Honolulu.

This compares with 340,000 held by public housing authorities.

Since 2001, annual federal capital grants for the New York City Public Housing Authority have declined by $ 162 million, or 26 percent.

These workers are critical to maintaining the largest public housing authority in the United States, ensuring that nearly half a million residents have safe and reliable homes.

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The grant, from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Justice, is part of a $ 1.75 million effort for public housing authorities and nonprofit legal services across the country to provide needed pro bono legal services aimed at youth.

The actions of government» through zoning boards, urban renewal agencies, public housing authorities, school boards, etc.» inevitably contributed, or so the argument went, to residential segregation.)

But critics, including some environmental groups, say it's an expensive bailout for the nuclear industry that will be financed by ratepayers around the state, as well as public institutions the same ratepayers use, like the MTA and New York City's public housing authority.

These Housing Trust Fund grants will enable each public housing authority to complete essential capital repairs that will enhance the quality of life for residents.»

The verdict is in: Mayor Bill de Blasio's public Housing Authority can not be trusted to fix its dangerously moldy and lead paint - riddled buildings.

Michael P. Kelly, a former general manager of New York City's public housing authority, is returning to the job at a time when the agency faces financial pressures even more dire than when he left.

For this episode of the podcast, we were joined by Shola Olatoye, chair and CEO of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the country's largest public housing authority, with over 400,000 people residing in its thousands of units across the city.

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

And in his first budget, Mr. de Blasio stopped charging the city's public housing authority to provide police services there, allowing some $ 74 million to be diverted from the NYPD payments to NYCHA repairs.

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.

The chair and CEO of the public housing authority testified that she did not talk to Mayor Bill de Blasio about signing the paperwork.

She toured a public housing complex in Brooklyn to meet with residents and hear their complaints about conditions amid a growing scandal over lead and mismanagement within New York City Public Housing Authority.

New York City's public housing authority will see at least $ 35 million less in federal aid this year, in what appears to be the first significant funding cuts to the city under President Donald Trump.

Public Housing Investment: Mayor de Blasio allocated $ 1 billion in capital funds in his revised capital spending plan towards roof repairs at 729 NYCHA buildings, putting a dent in the $ 17 billion in capital needs at the public housing authority.

The city's public housing authority is expected to lose at least $ 35 million in federal aid this year — and possibly even more — as a result of President Trump's...