Tag: public housing

Monitors overseeing failing NYC agencies racked up $111M tab

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The city has shelled out at least $111 million on monitors and special masters overseeing agencies ordered to fix high-stakes failures — from horrific living conditions in public housing and jails to alleged racist practices at the NYPD, FDNY and Department of Education. The Post examined 11 ongoing cases in which most of the pricey outside overseers have amassed fortunes after being appointed by judges and government entities to ensure city agencies correct years — and sometimes decades — of malfeasance. They include: $36.9 million lawyer that Mark S. Cohen…

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Schumer’s massive NYCHA allotment will do nothing for the population

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The Democrats’ multi-trillion dollar social infrastructure spending plan includes Shomark – a $40 billion appropriation that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has called for for the New York City Housing Authority. This manna from Washington is just the kind of half-baked borrowing and spending scheme that threatens Senator Joe Manchin with blowing up the bill. There is no doubt that America’s largest public housing system—with 178,000 apartments in 324 projects, representing 13 percent of all such units nationwide—needs to address the gamut of maintenance problems: leaky roofs, rampant mold, broken…

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