New York – U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is taking a closer look at the quality of life at New York City Housing Authority residences, following one of the largest gang take downs in city history, as reported Wednesday on VIN News.
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Bharara has launched a civil investigation into whether NYCHA has provided appropriate living conditions within their facilities. According to Bharara, poor living conditions often entices or fosters gang activity.
“There are over 400 thousand NYCHA residents who according to Housing and Urban Development regulations are entitled to housing that is — I quote, and this is from the regulations — “decent, safe, sanitary, and in good repair,” Bharara said. “And it’s clear that many are not getting that.”
If living conditions at NYCHA residences do not meet standards, Bharara could sue the city to ensure appropriate living conditions. Bharara could also ask U.S. Housing and Urban Development to step in as a monitor to ensure acceptable quality-of-life standards are met.
At an earlier hearing, NYCHA chair Shola Olatoye testified that Bharara’s office had requested and has received around 440 million records from the Housing Authority, relating to all aspects of its internal workings, WCBS 880’s Rich Lamb reported.
According to Bharara, NYCHA projects must be free of lead and mold, have good lighting and working elevators.
ok = if he wants quality if life to return to the city run housing projects = i suggest he should place body scanners, substance sniffing dogs at each and every building entrance to the housing project buildings, without racial profiling, and after they find and apprehend all the trouble makers, they should review the statistics on all arrests made, then they can and will have the proper statistics to see who are the real troubles
Acres and acres of older housing stock were cleared away since the 1930s ,as it was thought that it was the cause of crime.The NYCHA built low income housing for the poor with the understanding that it would solve a crime problem. However it’s not the housing that causes crime it’s criminals that cause crime.NYCHA was supposed to evict all criminals from its domain and has failed miserably at that job. We need to have a stronger authority that will sweep out all of the undesirables from city housing.
Anyone found breaking the law living in these buildings should be banned from them.