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NYCHA was established on January 20th, 1934, by New York City Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia. On December 3rd, 1935, First Houses became New Yorks first public housing development.
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt presided over the ribbon cutting ceremony.
11,000 New Yorkers applied for residency in the 123 new apartments. The first NYCHA board members were Langdon Post, Louis H. Pink, B. Charney Vladeck, Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Reverend E.T. Roberts Moore.
Graduated from Harvard. Veteran of WWI. New York City Assemblyman from 1928-1932. Sponsored legislation mandating stringent upgrading of housing standards. Wrote the bill that created NYCHA. Head of the health insurance plan that later evolved into the Blue Cross. An active member of ~15 public service organizations while on the NYCHA board.
Laid the ground work for the Jewish Labor Committee in 1933. Early member of the New York City Council (elected in 1937).
Graduated from Boston University Cofounded Greenwich House, a settlement house in New York City, in 1902. Published several social welfare pieces from 1917-1949. Became NYCHAs first Vice-Chairman from 1934-1948. Board member of the National Urban League for over 30 years. Ordained in 1919. Pastor of Old St. Peters Church on Barclay Street at the corner of Church St., in Lower Manhattan from 1937 until his death. Concurrently a member of NYCHAs board, and of the New York City Slum Clearance Committee.
Community Improvements
Prior to the founding of NYCHA, the state of the backyard in the neighborhood where the new apartments were to be built was a disaster. Construction of the First Houses development resulted in significant residential beautification and repairs, increasing the quality of life for new residents, as well the lives of established locals.
Growth
NYCHA has been housing low income New Yorkers from 1935 to the present
day. 1952; Establishment of the Housing Police, and the creation of 47 new NYCHA jobs.
In 1995 the Housing Police merges with the NYPD, and a NYCHA drug crackdown results in a One Strike Youre Out eviction policy.
federal program. The ATP program now encompasses 42 former state or city developments with a total of 48,132 units. In October of 1986 the final phase of a development program called Bushwick provides the last of another 1,206 apartments. In 1998 NYCHA was housing 431,496 residents. By April, 2006, NYCHA oversees ~21,000 non-federal housing units. Today more than 400,000 New Yorkers reside in NYCHAs 334 public housing developments around the five boroughs, and another 235,000 receive subsidized rental assistance in private homes through the NYCHAadministered Section 8 Leased Housing Program. NYCHA keeps an accurate timeline on their website at:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/html/about/nycha70_timeline.shtml
Points of Interest
The first elevators to see use in NYCHA units were installed in Red
NYCHA Elevators
support the war effort during WWII. Environmental and practical concerns in the 1950s caused a shift to fuel oil.
NYCHA Heating
When Langdon Post was put in charge of NYCHA in 1934 he had only
14 staff members. In 6 years management staff had increased to 26, and by the 1950s NYCHA had created over 7,000 jobs.
Members
Chairman John B. Rhea Vice Chair Emily Youssouf Board Member Margarita Lopez Resident Board Member Victor A. Gonzalez Secretary to the Board Vilma Heurtas General Manager Cecil House
John Rhea, Emily Youssouf, and Margarita Lopez are the primary board members, responsible for voting on contracts, resolutions, policies, motions, rules and regulations at regularly scheduled meetings of the Members of the Authority. Victor Gonzalez was appointed to the board in 2011, and is a resident of NYCHA
Recovery efforts are still underway as NYCHA repairs and rebuilds vital services for residents. A NYCHA resident receives much needed repairs NYCHA board members and executives have stepped up to address complaints, and invent solutions to problems revealed by the storm. NYCHA maintenance and repairs on PlanNYCHA Current progress report on cleanup and repair of NYCHA housing units
funding.
These issues are coupled with an increased and broadened resident population. NYCHA challenges on PlanNYCHA NYCHA is not in a great position to ensure jobs are available for residents, but some effort has been made to employ those affected by hurricane Sandy. NYCHA jobs for residents News
Sources
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