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NYCHA is a public-benefit corporation, controlled by the Mayor of New York City, and organized under the State's Public Housing Law. [6] [11] The NYCHA ("NYCHA Board") consists of seven members, of which the chairman is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the Mayor of New York City, while the others are appointed for three-year terms by the mayor. [12]
The State Housing Law of 1926 created the State Board of Housing. [5] [6] The law was reenacted in 1927 to create the Bureau of Housing. [7] Article XVIII on housing was added to the New York Constitution effective 1 January 1939. [8] The Division of Housing was continued in 1939 with the enactment of the Public Housing Law.
HPD is currently in the midst of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's Housing New York initiative to create and preserve 300,000 units of affordable housing by 2026. By the end of 2021, the City of New York financed more than 200,000 affordable homes since 2014, breaking the all-time record previously set by former Mayor Ed Koch. [3]
Construction on the Patterson Houses began in 1948 and were a part of a large push to build public housing developments in the five boroughs. [2] It was the first low rent development completed in the Bronx since World War II and the first families moved into the development in March 1950 with priority for veterans. [3]
The Gowanus Houses is a housing project of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), located between Douglass and Wyckoff Streets & Bond and Hoyt Streets in both the Gowanus and Boerum Hill neighborhoods of Brooklyn. It sits on 12.57 acres (5.09 ha) of land, consisting of sixteen separate buildings.
Artist Richmond Barthé's had a public commission from the New York City's Federal Art Project for an 80-foot bas-relief in cast stone, (1939), created for the embellishment of the Harlem River Houses complex, [15] but upon completion, his work was installed at the Kingsborough Houses in Brooklyn.
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The Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy is a joint center at New York University School of Law and the NYU Wagner School of Public Service.The Furman Center was established in 1995 to create a place where people interested in affordable housing and land use issues could turn to for factual, objective research and information. [1]