HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe forums will include small-group discussions with NYCHA and City Hall leadership, as well as resource tables where residents can speak one-on-one with NYCHA staff about apartment repairs, tenancy concerns, environmental issues and other needs. Residents can also connect with staff from the Mayor\u2019s Office to Protect Tenants and other City agencies including the Department of Social Services (DSS), Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD), Department for the Aging (DFTA) and NYC Parks.<\/p>\n
\u201cNYCHA in Your Neighborhood\u201d builds on the Authority\u2019s ongoing engagement with public housing residents, including resident leadership and tenant association meetings, board meetings, resident roundtables and surveys. Residents at each development also have a direct line to NYCHA through their Property Management Office and dedicated on-site staff, as well as specialty teams that respond around the clock to emergency heating, elevator and skilled-trades repair needs.<\/p>\n
NYCHA residents who need assistance can call the Customer Contact Center at 718-707-7771 or submit work tickets through the MyNYCHA application<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018NYCHA in Your Neighborhood\u2019 creates a unique avenue for dialogue between residents and senior leaders across the Authority,\u201d said NYCHA Chief Operating Officer Eva Trimble. \u201cThe first three events showed that residents are eager to connect directly to executive and specialty staff and that NYCHA\u2019s leadership always has more to learn about the resident experience. It has been a truly extraordinary opportunity to meet with so many residents face-to-face, and we look forward to continuing these informative discussions this fall.\u201d<\/p>\n
“We commend NYCHA and the Administration for organizing these outreach events,” said Fr. Frank Skelly, a leader with Metro IAF. “In our decades of organizing with NYCHA tenants in our congregations and their neighborhoods, far too often, we have heard people tell us how difficult it often is to interact with the Housing Authority and to get clear, reliable information. We know there are many people inside NYCHA working to improve this, and we’ve seen progress, though there’s still a long way to go. This kind of outreach event is one piece of helping tenants connect with the parts of the Housing Authority they need to get their issues resolved.”<\/p>\n
\u201cToo often, NYCHA residents are left to navigate serious housing issues with little assistance or entirely on their own,\u201d said Lucy Newman, Supervising Attorney in the Public Housing Unit at The Legal Aid Society. \u201cNYCHA in Your Neighborhood is a great way to help address that problem by bringing residents, agency leadership, and critical services together in one place. The Legal Aid Society is proud to participate, and we look forward to speaking directly with residents and helping ensure they have the tools and resources needed to assert their rights and maintain safe, stable homes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor Queensbridge residents, direct access to NYCHA\u2019s senior leadership is both meaningful and long overdue. Bringing NYCHA\u2019s C-suite into the community gives residents an opportunity to speak directly to the decision-makers about the conditions affecting their homes and families and, just as importantly, to be heard. As someone who was raised in Queensbridge and has spent decades serving this community, I know residents are not merely looking for another forum; they are looking for responsiveness, accountability, and results. \u2018NYCHA in Your Neighborhood\u2019 can help strengthen trust by bringing leadership closer to the people they serve and turning residents\u2019 lived experiences into meaningful action,\u201d said Bishop Mitchell G. Taylor, Co-Founder and CEO, Urban Upbound.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2013 Today, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Chief Executive Officer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-325159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}