The Brief
- Nearly 6,000 NYCHA apartments are vacant with over 240,000 families on the waiting list for public housing.
- The City Council’s Committee on Public Housing held a hearing to demand answers as to why it takes NYCHA “more than a year to fix and clean vacant apartments.”
- Brooklyn City Councilmember Alexa Avilés is sponsoring a bill that would require NYCHA to submit an annual report on public housing dwelling units that have been vacant for more than 30 continuous days to the City Council.
BROOKLYN – New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is under fire over vacant apartments sitting empty in the midst of a housing crisis.
‘More than a year to fix and clean apartments’
By the numbers:
Reporting from Red Hook, Brooklyn, FOX 5 NY’s Linda Schmidt reveals that 300 apartments in NYCHA Red Hook Houses are not currently occupied.
A look at NYCHA metrics, kept updated on its website, shows that nearly 6,000 NYCHA apartments are vacant. A NYCHA fact sheet released in 2024 states that there were over 240,000 families on the waiting list for public housing, as of December 31, 2023.…