The agency’s chairman, John Rhea, told state lawmakers on Friday, that a request for proposals would be released by the end of next month. In the last couple of weeks, local activists have become convinced the agency has no interest in true engagement and is moving at breakneck speed to implement the plan. Department of Housing and Urban Development seeking permission to lease the sites to private developers. NYCHA is required to “engage” tenants as part of its application to the U.S. NYCHA officials Cecil House, Fred Harris. This can only be accomplished, they argue, if most of the apartments are market-rate units. NYCHA officials are resisting pushing that number higher, saying the whole point is to raise $30-$50 million per year from the leases. In each project, 20% of the new apartments would be affordable. As in previous briefings, residents were promised that new spaces would be found for any permit holders who loses their spaces due to the new development. 70 would be permanently affordable, available to applicants earning no more than 60% of “Area Median Income” (around $50,000 for a family of four). Although he did not volunteer this information until pressed by a tenant organizer, NYCHA real estate head Fred Harris said there could be about 350 apartments here.
The 26,000 square foot site could support a 350,000 square foot residential tower. It’s a parking lot with 54 spaces near East Houston and Columbia streets. Here’s the slide officials flashed up on a big screen - showing the site under consideration at Baruch.
Today, we’ll focus on the new details revealed about the proposal at Baruch, as well as the strong negative reaction heard from residents and tenant advocates last night. I n previous stories, we have documented NYCHA’s talking points, which are designed to counter fears that the plan to offer 99-year leases to private developers is the first step towards the destruction of public housing in New York. It was the latest briefing on NYCHA’s controversial plan to build luxury housing on 15 parcels throughout Manhattan in order to narrow a huge budget deficit.įollowing meetings in the past couple of weeks at Campos Plaza and the LaGuardia Houses, the troubled agency’s general manager, Cecil House, brought the show to the tenants of the Baruch Houses, New York’s largest public housing complex. The crowd was sparse but those who did show up for a briefing by New York City Housing Authority officials last night at Bard High School made sure their frustration and anger were readily apparent. Residents of the Baruch Houses listen to NYCHA presentation at Bard High School.
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