Thursday, November 21, 2013

Response to NY Daily News Article: Pastor: NYCHA makes big effort to avoid repairing congregants’ apartments

This is TrueHarlemite's comments to the following article:
Pastor: NYCHA makes big effort to avoid repairing congregants’ apartments
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/pastor-nycha-big-effort-avoid-repairs-article-1.1503457

COMMENT 1
To NANCY DIAMOND, it may not be the neighbors but it may be people who can get into the buildings and do not live there. See:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/flimsy-locks-broken-intercoms-manhattan-nycha-houses-easy-criminals-break-article-1.1164421

NYCHA has been famous for not installing video cameras (that it has the money for) so that Residents can have "some" feeling of safety. These cameras would also monitor behavior like urinating and defecating in the elevators (human and animal) and stairways and enable the police to identify who is doing this so they can be arrested. John Rhea has video cameras all around where he lives. See:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/high-crime-nycha-developments-waiting-cameras-article-1.1395635 and
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/caught-cameras-article-1.1396708 and
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/nypd-sitting-cash-surveillance-cameras-rockaways-stakeholders-charge-article-1.1281128 and
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/42-million-allotted-security-cameras-city-projects-years-new-york-city-housing-authority-fails-install-single-article-1.1113507

Agree however that NYCHA has been sabotaging its own management in order to privatize the buildings. It also has a massive stock of uninhabited apartments it is warehousing while aggressively evicting needy Residents. See:
http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2013/jul/11/nycha-policies-contested-elderly-woman-fights-evic/


COMMENT 2
If John Rhea and his entire management staff do not go to jail, (to include Margarita Lopez) they all must know somebody.

Probably how Rhea got the job in the first place.

TH