Five years after the New York City Housing Authority turned over thousands of public housing apartments to for-profit operators, tenants living in the privately-run developments in Queens and the Bronx were evicted at an average rate that was three times higher than under authority management, according to a report released Thursday, prompting a promise of greater oversight.
One of those complexes was Ocean Bay Apartments in Far Rockaway, Queens, home to 3,700 people. Residents told Human Rights Watch that the new property manager, Wavecrest Management Group, was “more aggressive” in evicting them.Under a controversial program, NYCHA plans to outsource the management of one-third of its public housing inventory to for-profit operators in an effort to attract private funding to help pay for building repairs and maintenance.
The permanent eviction rate for NYCHA-managed buildings was 0.3% from 2017 to 2019 while the permanent eviction rates at Ocean Bay Apartments were 1.4% in 2017 and 1.2% in 2018 and 2019, according to Jackson Gandour, a fellow at Human Rights Watch and an author of the report. "Our first and most important priority will always be the well-being of our residents and keeping them affordably in their homes; and through the RAD program, we are able to provide thousands of homes across New York City with critical and vastly overdue improvements," Susan Camerata, the company’s chief financial officer, said in an email.
“I will ensure tenants of PACT developments are protected and informed of their rights and that private management entities are held accountable,” Avilés said. “As long as tenants lack full protections in RAD/PACT developments, I am opposed to any future conversions. Not one more.”
Bastards forgot how to work after months of getting drunk and doing drugs at the working taxpayer’s expense
How many weren’t paying rent?
What a surprise. 🙄
What were the evictions for? Judges don’t just grant evictions for no reason. NYC is probably one of the most pro-tenant courts in the country.
Bloomberg's legacy. Stabbing public housing in the gut; sending unhoused kids and teens into the streets (closed 5 boro centers). Imported destructive ritewingnuts from Wisc.!
The management companies are doing what NYCHA is conflicted on doing. Enforcing NYCHA felony evictions. Weapons possession, and drug sales
Good evening. A strong majority r non payment cases. Why would u think Nycha would have different outcome? Thank u
Every housing advocacy group has stated this
im shocked. water is wet.
Shocking
Ever stop to think that maybe these people SHOULD be evicted? And the city, in all of its incompetence, just took longer to do so? Walk near any public housing facility in NYC and you will firsthand see 5-10 people, that if you lived there, would wish they didn't.
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