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NYCHA's failure to stop reoccurring mold invasion spurs suit
On Tuesday, frustrated tenants will take action against the authority for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act — on the grounds that asthma is a disability.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
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Public Housing Residents Claim NYCHA Just Paints Over Mold Problems
It’s a cry for help from residents of New York City public housing.
Many have been complaining about mold in their city apartments for years, but charge the New York City Housing Authority never really confronts the problem.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
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NYC Housing Authority boss John Rhea passed on fed funds
AT A BREAKFAST meeting last week, city Housing Authority Chairman John Rhea announced he was pursuing $500 million in federal funds for “desperately needed” roof and brickwork repairs.
He didn’t mention that two years ago, he decided against going after the same pot of money because he didn’t have qualified staff to spend it wisely, the Daily News has learned.
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Monday, October 1, 2012
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Rhea’s big promises
Embattled New York City Housing Authority Chairman John Rhea has unveiled plans that he promises will generate several billion dollars to pay for critically needed, long overdue renovations at the agency’s 334 developments.
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Monday, October 1, 2012
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Broken NYCHA can be repaired
The New York City Housing Authority is the custodian of a vast and critical public resource — 180,000 apartments, hundreds of developments, thousands of workers — that lives and dies silently.
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Monday, August 6, 2012
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NYCHA’S GRAY MONSTER: Residents live with mold that won’t die
A tale of rot and ruined health is all too familiar among residents of New York City Housing Authority buildings, where mold often grows unchecked and impatient renters grow irate. (click link to read more...)
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Sunday, August 5, 2012
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Mike's blind spot
The mayor should have read the letter. The mayor should have taken the contents seriously. The mayor should have responded appropriately and aggressively for the betterment of New York.
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Friday, August 3, 2012
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Bloomberg continues to defend NYCHA chief John Rhea
Mayor Bloomberg on Friday admitted to blowing off a non-profit agency that charged the city’s Housing Authority was sitting on $1 billion and failing to take advantage of another $600,000.
“It’s all ginned up by some group,” Bloomberg said on WOR-AM radio’s John Gambling show. “They wrote us a letter. And, yes, it’s true, they did not get a written response.”
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Friday, August 3, 2012
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Letter to Mayor Bloomberg last year warned of NYCHA’s failures
City housing officials, in addition to sitting on nearly $1 billion in federal funds, were too inept to collect another $600 million in available revenue, a civic improvement group charged last year.
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
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High-handed Mike
Yes, New York City Housing Authority Chairman John Rhea has a tough job, as Mayor Bloomberg assigned a press aide to say in response to Tuesday’s Daily News front page calling on the mayor to fire Rhea and fellow board members.
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
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NYCHA board sitting on nearly $1B in fed cash
They earn close to $200,000 a year, ride in city-owned cars, live in tony Manhattan apartments — and are sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars intended to benefit low income New York families.
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
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Romney must stop running from Romneycare
n 2006, then-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney helped save the lives of two sick women: Tammy Stafford and Lavern Barnes.
If we lived in the era of silent films, Stafford and Barnes would be tied to train tracks and resigned to their fates. Then the governor and his deputies would ride in, vanquish the varmints who put the ladies there and release them just before the train roared through.(click) line for more)
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
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The Sad Story of Thaddeus McCotter
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, a four-term Republican from Michigan, just became the first incumbent congressman in seven decades not to qualify for his party’s primary ballot.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
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For New York Police, There’s No End to the Stops
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Monday, May 14, 2012
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Why stop and frisk? Here’s a better way
Mayor Bloomberg recently invited a group of clergy for a discussion of the Police Department’s stop, question and frisk procedures and their impact in the African-American and Hispanic communities. We attended and appreciated the opportunity to hear the mayor’s views and to share our own.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
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Obama’s mortgage unit is AWOL
Three months ago, in his State of the Union speech, President Obama announced a new task force to investigate mortgage fraud and bring some measure of relief to the 12 million American families who are either losing their homes or in danger of losing them.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
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McCotter had 'no knowledge' former staffer went undercover to discredit liberal organization
U.S. Rep. Thad McCotter of Livonia says former staffer John M. Howting quit his office months before he was caught attempting to discredit a liberal organization by way of an undercover sting.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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At Advocates’ Offices, Confronting an Anti-Liberal Scheme
Young, bearded, a bit scruffy, a young man walked into a community organizing office in East Harlem, lugging a heavy bag. A little nervous, he said that his name was Melvin Howting, and that he worked for an environmental company in New Jersey and had a few questions about how to organize a union.
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Monday, April 2, 2012
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Bronx photo exhibit depicts poor living conditions for some in public housing
A girl in a pink-painted bedroom sits on a bunkbed wearing an airmask over her nose, clutching a machine to help her breathe.
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Friday, March 30, 2012
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How to make it Old York City
Author Susan Jacoby wrote in her book on aging, “Never Say Die,” that “anyone lucky enough to be a New Yorker is already a resident of an assisted living community.”
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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Home Is Where the Mold Is
Sarita Latchman, a vibrant 42-year-old mother and former parks worker, has a sound like a baby’s rattle at the back of her throat.
Which is not surprising, as her apartment in the Jefferson Houses in East Harlem is speckled with soot-black mold. A thick carpet of it runs down her bathroom wall and across the ceiling of her children’s bedrooms. Rub it and the spores float, landing on sink tops and children’s hair. They also journey through Ms. Latchman’s nasal passageway into her lungs.
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Monday, July 4, 2011
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