NYCHA

Then-Governor Andrew Cuomo visits Forest Houses in The Bronx.

Cuomo Claimed These NYCHA Tenant Leaders Endorsed Him. They Say They Never Did.

June 5, 2025, 6:16 p.m.June 5, 2025, 7:46 p.m.

Seven public housing tenant association presidents told THE CITY that they were surprised to see their names on a list of Cuomo backers.

A George Washington Houses resident in East Harlem displays an American flag out their window.

NYCHA

Trump Public Housing Time Limits Could Displace 300,000 NYC Residents, Internal Analysis Finds

May 30, 2025, 9:08 a.m.May 30, 2025, 10:26 a.m.

An assessment by the New York City Housing Authority projects dire consequences of the president’s proposal to allow just two years of rental assistance to "able bodied" adults.

A/C units sat in the windows of a Washington Heights tenement building.

Trump istration

Trump Budget Proposal Could Devastate New York’s Housing Landscape

May 7, 2025, 5:00 a.m.May 12, 2025, 2:02 p.m.

Billions in aid cuts and a two-year limit on vouchers would cripple tenants and landlords alike, industry groups say.

A map shows NYCHA complexes across the five boroughs were federal prosecutors allege superintendents were taking bribes.

Public Housing

NYCHA Paid Out Millions to Bribe-Paying Contractors Implicated in Corruption Takedown

April 16, 2025, 2:11 p.m.April 16, 2025, 2:14 p.m.

An investigation by THE CITY finds contractors who publicly confessed to paying thousands of bribes to Housing Authority staff were subsequently awarded hundreds of no-bid contracts. NYCHA says it had no idea.

Americans with Disabilities Act

Wheelchair Trapped at Rehab Sues NYCHA for Accessible Apartment

April 7, 2025, 5:00 a.m.April 7, 2025, 8:58 a.m.

Susan Bourne was disabled by a stroke in 2013. Instead of making her apartment accessible, NYCHA has waged a yearslong campaign to evict her.

Damage from a fire was visible in an Ingersoll Houses window.

NYCHA

Security Guards Were AWOL at NYCHA Developments, DOI finds

March 26, 2025, 2:38 p.m.March 26, 2025, 2:38 p.m.

Department of Investigation concludes fire and safety officers working for FJC Security filed false timesheets to claim full pay when they were missing for hours and sometimes entire shifts.

Dozens of anti-DOGE demonstrators held a die-in at the Stock Exchange to protest steep budget cuts.

How to New York

How GOP Budget Cuts Could Affect NYC: Your Questions Answered

March 20, 2025, 5:00 a.m.March 20, 2025, 3:30 p.m.

It’s not just programs that receive federal funding that could be at risk.

NYCHA

Electric Heat Pumps Get Warm Reviews at Queens Public Housing Development

Feb. 27, 2025, 5:00 a.m.Feb. 27, 2025, 4:47 p.m.

Woodside Houses residents say the eco-friendly alternatives to steam radiators have served them well through the winter.

Scaffolding was set up while repairs were made at NYCHA’s Walt Whitman Houses in Brooklyn.

Trump istration

Federal Frenzy Puts Public Housing Funding and Nonprofit Grants in Question

Jan. 30, 2025, 5:41 p.m.Jan. 30, 2025, 5:54 p.m.

The viability of apartments for more than half a million low-income New Yorkers relies on federal dollars that the Trump istration has vowed to reexamine and potentially revoke.

NYCHA workers made the rounds at the Jackie Robinson Houses in East Harlem.

Public Housing

Rampant Lack of Oversight Led to NYCHA Contract Corruption, Comptroller Audit Finds

Nov. 20, 2024, 6:03 p.m.Nov. 20, 2024, 6:04 p.m.

Comptroller Brad Lander’s office found dozens of cases where NYCHA could not document that work the agency had paid for was actually done.

NYCHA

Cuomo Claimed These NYCHA Tenant Leaders Endorsed Him. They Say They Never Did.

Trump Public Housing Time Limits Could Displace 300,000 NYC Residents, Internal Analysis Finds

Trump Budget Proposal Could Devastate New York’s Housing Landscape

NYCHA Paid Out Millions to Bribe-Paying Contractors Implicated in Corruption Takedown

Wheelchair Trapped at Rehab Sues NYCHA for Accessible Apartment

Security Guards Were AWOL at NYCHA Developments, DOI finds

How GOP Budget Cuts Could Affect NYC: Your Questions Answered

Electric Heat Pumps Get Warm Reviews at Queens Public Housing Development

Federal Frenzy Puts Public Housing Funding and Nonprofit Grants in Question

Rampant Lack of Oversight Led to NYCHA Contract Corruption, Comptroller Audit Finds

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