Council’s public housing chair calls for more NYCHA funding in state budget
The city councilmember who chairs the committee overseeing public housing has called on the state to increase funding for NYCHA repairs after Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive budget failed to allocate any new money for the ailing complexes that house an estimated 600,000 New Yorkers.
Councilmember Alicka Ampry-Samuel responded to an Eagle story that highlighted the lack of additional funding in Cuomo’s budget plan.
“Decades of underfunding is the reason that NYCHA is currently in a state of crisis,” Ampry-Samuel said. “We need over $45 billion in repairs and maintenance. Acknowledging this means that we have to provide a financial means to ensure that the health and quality-of-life needs for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are met.”