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Articles by Patrick Dolan Jr.
NYCHA tenants deserve rent abatements for missing heat
This was the worst winter for Ruth Britt. Britt, a resident of the Patterson Houses in the Bronx, went without heat and hot water for days during the widespread system outages that plagued New York City Housing Authority developments throughout the city. Britt, who is on a fixed income, had to buy a space heater and rely on her stove to keep from shivering. The added expenses strained her pocketbook and she had to forgo food and other vital items from the grocery store to stay within her budget.
3 myths Trump’s budget proposal wants you to believe about public housing
President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2019 budget proposal, released last month, proposed to gut the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s programs that help millions of Americans. The president’s budget inflicts particular harm on public housing, relying on some commonly held myths as the rationale for why these programs should be cut.
Shola Olatoye deserves our support
There is a special vitriol our media and political class reserve for powerful women of color. Today, New York City’s Public Housing Authority Chairwoman Shola Olatoye is on the receiving end of it. The knives are out for one of the most accomplished and effective public servants in New York City, and one of the highest-ranking women of color in public life. We can’t let those forces win.
Bringing aging NYCHA buildings into the 21st century
In the closing days of September, the New York City Council held hearings focused on lessons to be learned from London’s tragic Grenfell Tower fire, which in early June killed more than 80 people, an estimate expected to rise. All of that building’s tenants were low- to moderate-income and living in public housing.
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