Public housing

Public Housing in the United States has by many been considered to be a major failure. It has generally failed to provide its residents with a safe environment to live, and outside of the buildings often plagued with violence, segregation, lack of upward mobility, the failure to maintain the buildings for its residents, and unemployment have led to failure in the public housing system. While changes are being made to improve public housing and root out problems such as racism, and corruption within the housing authority, overwhelmingly the history of what was supposed to be a revolutionary way of living for urban poor, has been a failure. Due to the decline of the city at the time public housing arose, racism, and the failure of the federal…

executive administrator of New York City Housing Authority’s question regarding the New York Public Housing Law §37. Public housing disrepair and low maintenance is not a new issue to New Yorkers. Despite the government's effort to lower the percentage of public housing disrepair, a very small percentage was decreased. There are 520,103 residents in 378 housing projects, where more than 90% of those projects are in need of some kind of immediate repair. The new York’s Housing Authority…

The Federal government funding faces obstacles in bridging the public housing deficit gap. Iconic, urban housing failures such as 1950’s, Pruitt-Igoe projects, exemplifies U.S Federal government’s inability to adequately provide properly funded public housing. Biased public sectors contend public housing does not deteriorate due to insufficient budgeting, but it is caused by the behavior of the poor. Hence, “throwing” money will not resolve the issue. Contrarily, others argue housing conditions…

Many families face the challenges of public housing. Not only it is the struggle to get access to the public housing, but it is also very difficult to get out of public housing environment. The reasons that people find themselves in a situation when they need public housing are economic and social. Poverty is a complex prevalent social issue throughout the United States. Most citizens consider personal deficiencies to be the primary cause for poverty. Individualistic factors or structural…

Known the crucial need for reasonable rental housing in many communities, Low Income Public Housing is provided, in part, for transitional housing due to income and circumstances. Recently, HUD OIG report noted that more than 25,226 families whose income exceeded HUD’s 2014 eligibility income limits. 17, 000 households exceeded income limits for more than 1 year. (2015-PH-0002). Based on HUD guideline those families met the income eligibility upon their admission into the program. II.…

FUNDING NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC HOUSING: ANALYZING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE OPTIONS New York City Public Housing is the biggest public housing program in the whole of North America. This claim presupposes a huge budget for the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the agency that administers the public housing program. It is imperative to get a fair background about NYCHA so that one can fully appreciate the scope of its budget. NYCHA was established in 1934 to provide housing to the City’s low…

With respect to public housing, America has fell below the curve in providing adequate and equal public housing for all citizens. In the 1960’s, public housing was perceived to be a ladder of opportunity for whites, but it had become the ladder to nowhere for blacks. The country started to blame the tarnished image of public housing on black people instead of holding the federal government accountable for its absent in the housing sector. The case of Gatreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority…

Detroit does not carry the same legacy’s it once did. It wasn’t until after WWII that Detroit suffered this shift. In his book, “The Origins of the Urban Crisis”, historian Thomas Sugrue strives to give an explanation to this shift and find the answer to why Detroit has become the site of persistent racialized poverty and what exactly caused the urban crisis in post WWII Detroit. Sugrue found that Detroits situation was not predetermined (Capeci 1718). Instead, it was the decisions of…

Division of the Police Department, “The committee reported that of the two thousand girls who came to the attention of the women 's division, only 3 percent were committed to penal institutions.” And because of this success along with DFWC support, the amendment permanently establishing the women’s division of the Detroit Police Force was passed. Through this amendment, the division became permanent along with the achievement of benefits and pensions, and vocational training for women officers.…

Background In 1942, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) began construction on the Cabrini-Green Homes, a massive array of public housing in what was considered, at the time, a “slum” neighborhood. The housing included both row homes and a massive set of high rises that, at its peak, housed 15,000 people (Guzzardi, 2011). It was part of a post-World War II government effort to meet unprecedented urban housing needs. By 2011, the housing, along with all that came with it – crime, violence,…