Public Housing

Press Release from the New York City Housing Authority

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 28, 2020

CONTACT: media@nycha.nyc.gov

NYCHA PRESENTS A BLUEPRINT FOR CHANGE AT NEW YORK HOUSING CONFERENCE’S 2020 SUMMER SERIES

Long-term Strategy Includes Establishing a Public Housing Preservation Trust and a Stabilization Plan for Every Building

HUD’s Office of Public & Indian Housing (PIH) will host a four-part Repositioning Webinar training series open to all PHAs. The webinar series will be held November 12, 14, 19, and 21 and will cover:

In tandem with the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority’s (CMHA) two-year, $350,000 project to revitalize Woodhill Homes, ideastream, a publicly supported and locally owned multimedia news source in Northeast Ohio, is producing a series of stories about the community and its residents.

On Tuesday, the U.S House of Representatives passed by vote H.R. 1690, the Safe Housing for Families Act of 2019, to protect residents of public housing from carbon monoxide poisoning by authorizing over $300 million over three years to fund the installation and maintenance of carbon monoxide detectors in Department of Housing and Urban Development-subsidized housing units that have combustion-fueled appliances or a ventilation system that connects them to such units.

FY20 Funding Bill from the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies Includes Robust Funding Increases and Legislative Language to Prevent HUD from Evicting Mixed-Status Immigrant Families