Sentences with phrase «said public housing tenants»

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

While NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was at a Texas music festival peddling his national agenda, Cuomo was quick to jump in on some Big Apple issues that critics say the mayor has sorely neglected — agreeing to meet with public - housing tenants over their heat, mold and lead - paint woes.

The mayors office continues to place blame on the state funding saying, «Public housing tenants deserve that (state) funding to be quickly applied to NYCHA's most pressing needs.

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.

«This governor has spent his entire career in public service fighting homelessness and building affordable housing and it's under his leadership that New York is implementing an unprecedented $ 20 billion anti-homelessness and housing problem, twice strengthened rent protections with Assembly Democrats and created a tenant protection unit that placed more than 6,000 buildings and 61,000 units back under rent stabilization,» said spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

The mayor said he is not well - versed yet on the governor's plan but cautioned that the process, which limits his control over an agency in his purview, could slow progress for some 400,000 tenants who live in public housing.

«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.

Public housing tenants across the city — faced with a double - digit spike in shootings — say it boggles the mind.

«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.

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.

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.

He says he won't sign the state budget unless it includes «real and immediate remedies» for public housing tenants.

«We went to NYCHA and said «these contractors aren't doing what they're supposed to,» said Mr. Stringer, surrounded by public housing tenants.