New York City Housing Authority

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The first public housing project in New York City, the First Houses

The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is an agency of the city government of New York City . She runs the city's social housing . Together with the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) of New York State , she is responsible for public housing support in New York City. NYCHA is the largest public housing agency in the United States and the largest landlord in New York City.

history

NYCHA was founded on January 20, 1934 by New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and was the first public housing agency in the United States. As early as the next year, on December 3, 1935, the first NYCHA social housing project, the First Houses in the Lower East Side , was inaugurated.

NYCHA today

NYCHA currently (as of September 2009) operates 178,554 homes in 336 locations in all five New York boroughs ( Manhattan , Bronx , Brooklyn , Queens and Staten Island ). NYCHA has 11,957 employees and 403,581 people (as of June 29, 2009) - nearly five percent of New Yorkers - live in the 2,607 buildings it manages.

The NYCHA also administers the Mietzuschussprogramm the Department of Housing and Urban Development of the US government (the so-called "Section 8" program) for New York City, making a total of more than 600,000, or 7.8% of New Yorkers support NYCHA receive. Only residents whose income is below a certain income limit are eligible for NYCHA housing. NYCHA tenants pay a maximum of 30% of their income as rent. The average monthly rent was 397 dollars (29 June 2009), compared with 2,700 dollars on average for the whole of New York (2008). However, the average annual income of NYCHA tenants of $ 22,905 per household is less than half that of the whole of New York ($ 51,116, 2008).

Problems

NYCHA settlements such as the Queensbridge Houses or Brownsville Houses are often social hot spots with high unemployment and crime that have not yet been resolved despite numerous social programs and their own police force . The dilapidated fabric of the buildings, most of which were completed before 1965, is another problem that NYCHA is struggling with.

Despite the problems, NYCHA apartments are still very popular: 130,058 families were on the NYCHA apartment waiting list and 127,764 families were on the Section 8 waiting list, with 32,163 applicants on both lists (as of July 31, 2009). Only 3.3% of residents moved out in calendar year 2008, and the vacancy rate of 0.65% is very low compared to 3.6% in Manhattan.

See also

source

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elizabeth A. Harris: What You Need to Know Before You Rent, The New York Times (August 22, 2008).
  2. ↑ 2008 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates .
  3. ↑ Elizabeth A. Harris: What You Need to Know Before You Rent, The New York Times (August 22, 2008).

literature

  • Nicholas Dagen Bloom: Public Housing That Worked - New York in the Twentieth Century. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2009, ISBN 978-0-8122-2067-4
  • Richard Plunz: A History of Housing in New York City. Columbia University Press, New York 1990, ISBN 978-0-231-06297-8