Working to Rebuild and Strengthen after Sandy (New York City Housing Authority)

Date Published: 
October 10th, 2019

From NewCities.org:

There is only one landlord in the United States that is spending over a billion dollars on resilience measures on multi-family buildings: the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). The Authority is rebuilding and protecting buildings – some almost 70 years old – against storm surge and sea level rise.

In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, with 33 of its 328 developments severely damaged, NYCHA did what no housing authority before it had been able to do. Instead of tearing down affordable housing critical to the city or vacating first-floor apartments and losing hundreds of units that are a lifeline to families, NYCHA took the hard route. NYCHA fought for a record $3 billion grant – the largest single grant in FEMA’s history and the largest federal investment in public housing since its inception. With these resources, the Authority took a site-by-site and building-by-building approach to design. This undertaking also required the latest thinking in structural reinforcement and infrastructure protection.

Read NYCHA's article "Working to Rebuild and Strengthen after Sandy" on NewCities.org.

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