Sentences with phrase «public housing committee»

The DOI letter released Tuesday, which had been sent to former City Council Public Housing Committee Chair Ritchie Torres, provided strong evidence that claim was false.

NYCHA has committed to pressing Sandy contractors to hire tenants, but Public Housing Committee Chairman Ritchie Torres (D - Bronx) and Councilman Mark Treyger (D - Brooklyn) want to make sure that happens.

Check out the transcripts of the April 2013 Public Housing Committee hearings if you are interested in the highly paranoid contemporary discourse around urban housing and displacement.

Shola Olatoye, the head of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), testified before the city council's Public Housing Committee in early December.

The City Council's public housing committee held a hearing on the issue on Thursday, during which chairman Ritchie Torres said Cuomo is playing politics in the crudest form.

The report, released by State Senator Jeffrey D. Klein and chairman of City Council Public Housing Committee Ritchie Torres, polled 200 NYCHA residents door - to - door.

Nevertheless, the roof - repair was panned by the City Council's public housing committee chairman as inadequate.

The spike in NYCHA's unfunded capital improvements shortfall also coïncided when New York City Councilmember Ritchie Torres (D - Fordham) served as chair of the Municipal legislature's public housing committee.

Public Housing Committee Chair Ritchie Torres was joined by several colleagues and union officials in complaining about the supposed «privatization» of services that the mayor's plan would entail.

As an attorney and former chair of the Public Housing Committee she could manage Zoning capably.

At 10 a.m., the NYC Council Public Housing Committee will be holding a preliminary budget hearing to review the Authority's current and future expenses, revenue, and operations, Committee Room, City Hall, Manhattan.

In a special edition of «Max & Murphy on Housing,» our weekly discussion of New York housing politics, City Council Member Ritchie Torres joined Jarrett Murphy and me to discuss the New York City Housing Authority, or NYCHA, which Torres has oversight of as chair of the Council's public housing committee.

Ms. Cumbo told Shola Olatoye, Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of the New York City Housing Authority, at a hearing of the council's public housing committee that residents in her district are perplexed that so many non-English speaking immigrants are moving into certain developments.

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As Chairman of the City Council Public Housing Committee, Ritchie believes that a good rooftop is the first - but not the only way - out of poverty and homelessness.

«Three years is not sufficient,» remarked Councilmember Ritchie Torres, Chair of the City Council's Public Housing Committee.

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.

Councilman Ritchie Torres, who chairs the public housing committee and is usually a supporter of Governor Andrew Cuomo, said all the money should go to the buildings most in need and not be distributed in chunks for lawmakers» «pet projects.»

However, Council Member Ritchie Torres, who chairs the Council's public housing committee, and others believe the city should be investing more.

«When you see a number that says 80 % of the residents went without heat or hot water — that's damn near everybody,» Ampry - Samuel, chair of the public housing committee, said.

While Torres (D - Tremont, Fordham Heights, Belmont, Van Nest, Bedford Park, Allerton) does not currently represent a district largely affected by the super-storm compared to waterfront communities, such as in the East Bronx and South Brooklyn, the Councilman represents the Public Housing committee, which works on city - wide NYCHA policy and affairs.

Ritchie Torres, a City Council member in the Bronx and chair of the Public Housing Committee, is set to unveil a $ 520 million plan...

Councilman Ritchie Torres (D - Bronx), chair of the public housing committee, wrote a letter to NYCHA chair Shola Olatoye Monday demanding she answer more questions about the development plan.

Mendez was chair of the public housing committee during the first part of her City Council career.

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Mr. Torres, who chairs the public housing committee, pressed Mr. Couch and Shola Olatoye — Mayor Bill de Blasio's Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer for NYCHA — on why the infamously underfunded authority had not converted the units.

This month, State Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, a Democrat who represents parts of the Bronx and Westchester County, and Ritchie Torres, a Democrat from the Bronx who is chairman of the City Council's Public Housing Committee, released the results of a door - to - door survey their offices conducted among more than 200 Nycha residents, with 63 percent of those surveyed reporting something damaged or broken in their unit.

Mendez chairs the public housing committee.

Tuesday morning's City Council oversight hearing, to be held at City Hall by the Council's Public Housing Committee, is slated to feature testimony from Olatoye as well as Department of Investigation Commissioner Mark Peters, whose Nov. 14 report detailed the authority's failings.

City Councilman Ritchie Torres (D - Bronx), who chairs the Public Housing Committee, said the unfolding scandal showed that NYCHA «can not be relied upon to hold itself accountable.»

«Tonight's BronxTalk will feature freshman Councilman Ritchie Torres, the council's youngest member and the chair of the Public Housing committee.

Torres will hold a hearing Thursday on the roof debacle as head of the Council's Public Housing Committee.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency agreed this weekend to pay $ 100 million for new boilers at dozens of public housing developments damaged by Superstorm Sandy after Councilman Ritchie Torres, chair of the Council's comittee on public housing, held a Public Housing Committee hearing in a Coney Island NYCHA development last month to raise awareness of the issue.

Bronx Councilman Rafael Salamanca, a member of the Public Housing committee, attacked the move as more of the same from Team de Blasio.

When Torres pushed her to explain why she let 15 - 16 months go by without telling the general public or the public housing committee about the lack of compliance, she expressed regret over not telling people sooner.

Councilman Ritchie Torres of the Bronx, the chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Committee and former chair of the Public Housing Committee, said the city, state and federal government all need to step up to help.

Adams singled out the commitment of $ 1.2 million for the project from Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., and City Councilmember Ritchie Torres, the out gay chair of the Public Housing Committee.