NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s public housing authority has a repair backlog so large that it would dwarf the city’s worst private landlords if it were ranked alongside them, the city’s public advocate said in a report released Wednesday.
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Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said the New York City Housing Authority has hundreds of thousands of open repair requests, far exceeding the unresolved violations attributed to any individual private landlord in the city.
Williams released the findings as part of his annual “Worst Landlord Watchlist,” which highlights private property owners with the most persistent housing code violations. He said NYCHA was excluded from the rankings because it is a public agency, but argued that its scale of unaddressed maintenance issues places it in a category of its own.
According to the report, NYCHA developments continue to struggle with problems including broken elevators, mold, pest infestations and heating issues. Williams said the volume of outstanding work orders reflects years of underinvestment and slow repairs that directly affect residents’ quality of life.
The public advocate said the list is intended to pressure landlords — and city agencies — to improve conditions and to give tenants information to demand action. He called for stronger oversight and faster repairs at NYCHA properties, saying public housing residents deserve the same basic standards as tenants in privately owned buildings.
NYCHA has said it faces aging infrastructure and funding constraints but has pledged to reduce its repair backlog.
Where is the Worst Tenants list, those who owe thousands of dollars and break the apartment and do drugs in the building and harass other tenants and keep a filthy apartment……….
Typical, the government is the worst slumlord by a mile.
They’re real slums poorly maintained
Because they don’t go through same inspection process as landlord owned buildings.
Let mamdani take the governments property and turn it over to private management….
I really appreciate the public advocate Jumanee Williams honesty by pointing out the hypocrisy of how Mamdani is going after private landlords and not looking at how inefficient the government takes care of its citizens. It’s quite refreshing.
Simple solution – charge the residents on NYCHA fair market rate, and that would raise the needed funds to repair these buildings. Then create 1000s of new jobs by opening these repairs up to public bids instead of keeping it all ‘in-house’, giving it to union workers.
government housing