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Tenants at NYCHA’s Riis Houses Will Vote on Whether to Shift to Private Management
Unlike other developments where NYCHA has held votes in recent years, residents at the Jacob Riis Houses will choose between only two options: the Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) ...
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Samples show no arsenic in water at Jacob Riis Houses despite sick residents: NYCHA
New York City officials insist there's no water problem at NYCHA's Jacob Riis houses on the Lower East Side, just as they insisted there was no water poisoning two years ago. Eyewitness News got ...
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A NYC Tenement Legacy Persists, Despite Gentrification
When Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives in 1890, New York City’s Lower East Side was the epicenter of American tenement life. At one point, almost three hundred thousand people were ...
NYCHA residents across NYC protest what they say are inhumane conditions. How the housing authority is responding
Residents are saying "enough is enough." Outside the Jacob Riis Houses on the Lower East Side, residents protested with a ...