In 2021, when New York State rolled out its COVID-19 rent relief program, New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) residents were not included in the initial wave of funding. The impact of that still reverberates years later, with tens of thousands of public housing tenants behind on rent and the housing authority struggling to meet the cost of operational needs.
“Without urgent and substantial intervention, New York City faces a crisis of escalating homelessness and a continuous decline in the quality of NYCHA’s housing stock,”Travis Bostick, a director of policy and research at the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, testified at a recent City Council hearing about the issue.
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“Infills can create new housing while also helping provide funding or upgrades to preserve existing buildings, all helping to reinvigorate a neighborhood.”
