In Public Service: Walker criticizes de Blasio housing plan
Assemblymember Latrice Walker, who grew up in a housing development in Brownsville called Prospect Plaza, said she knows first-hand how changes in government policy can affect the lives of average New Yorkers.
Prospect Plaza, with 485 units spread out over four buildings, operated under the jurisdiction of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), but was demolished under a federal HOPE VI program. The HOPE program was supposed to make the lives of NYCHA residents better, but Walker said her mom and all of the other tenants had to move out, leaving behind apartments they had lived in for decades.