Category: Housing & Health
The Impacts of Living in NYCHA | Report by Regional Plan Association
The people in New York City leading both the efforts to bring attention to the deteriorating conditions in our public housing, and the efforts to have them repaired, are their residents. It is important to recognize that government and civic organizations, as well as the New York City Housing Authority…
Public Housing and Public Health | Journal Article by Justin R. La Mort
News outlets were full of reports of New York City Housing Authority’s (NYCHA) systemic failures at the end of 2017. When questioned whetherpeople who live in public housing deserve the same standard of living aspeople in private housing, Mayor Bill de Blasio explained “[p]eople in pub-lic housing deserve the very…
Study: NYCHA Living Conditions Affects Residents’ Health | NY1
Eighty-one percent of residents living in five public housing complexes across the Rockaway peninsula are in desperate need of immediate repairs to their apartments. That’s according to a new study by the Regional Plan Association — conducted with Community Voices Heard — a grassroots group fighting for housing justice. Their…
The long-term health consequences of living at NYCHA | Article in Politico
The television, the outlets, the desk are all covered in dust. The grime on the windows is so thick that there is almost no visibility. Black mold dots the walls and the ceiling.Soon after Estrella moved into her New York City Housing Authority apartment in the Bronx, her toddler David…
