STATEMENT FROM DEPUTY LEADER RITCHIE TORRES, CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC HOUSING
ON HISTORIC STATE INVESTMENT IN NYCHA
As the Chair of the NYC Council Committee on Public Housing, I commend Governor Cuomo, Speaker Heastie, Coalition Co-Leader Jeff Klein, as well as longtime public housing advocates in both the Assembly and the Senate, for making the largest state investment in NYCHA in more than two decades. I am hopeful that the State's historic allocation will mark the beginning of a longer-term reinvestment in public housing. These urgently needed state dollars, at a time of historic inequality, will go toward improving living conditions for thousands of low-income New Yorkers and restoring hundreds of public housing units back to the affordable housing stock.
