Governor Andrew Cuomo isn’t talking about this development.
It seems that most of the residents/tenants in New York City Public Housing aren’t aware of how to protect themselves from COVID-19 (coronavirus), and the spreading of the virus sits like a ticking time bomb on their living conditions.
As COVID-19 cases in the city increase exponentially, New York’s neediest residents are left with little information or support from NYCHA. It’s so simple; they don’t want them to know. They want to depopulate large sections of the planet without global war because of possible nuclear fallout. This way, lots of people still die, yet it’s an “invisible enemy,” and no one can avoid it.
The problem is not just that NYCHA’s aging and sick are uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19. It’s that the agency has little track record of creating healthy conditions for its residents. Residents over the age of 20 have been found to be four times more likely to be hospitalized for asthma than other New Yorkers, according to New York City’s Department of Health; a 2018 report by the New York State Department of Health found that roughly half of NYCHA units it tested had visible mold growth.
In 2019, the conditions of its 2,351 buildings were deemed so deplorable, the housing authority was forced to address the chronic lead, mold, busted heating, and general disrepair that plague its residents, under the eye of a federal monitor. The Department of Housing and Urban Development pledged $0 to the effort. In January, NYCHA’s capital shortfall was estimated at $40 billion.
Now, introduce a global pandemic to the equation. Rents are calculated based on previous year’s income, which will tax residents who lose work because of the virus. Public spaces — mailbox areas, elevators, stairwells , garbage chutes — may be hard to keep clean. Chaney Yelverton, the tenant association president of the Morrisania Air Rights development told New York he had to inform NYCHA chair Gregory Russ a week ago that the pink cleaning product used in his Bronx buildings was in fact devoid of disinfectant. The homeless population, itself vulnerable to COVID-19, often shelters in NYCHA buildings. Ancient pipes regularly break and leak sewage into apartments; it appears COVID-19 can be transmitted through feces. [NY Mag]
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New York should be ashamed. How did the mayor and Governor put the rights of illegals over the safety of citizens? Where is the money to supply help to these people? This is sad, impeach the leadership.
When this pandemic is over, remember who saved humanity. It wasn’t billionaires, corporations, celebrities, or politicians, but nurses, doctors, teachers, grocery store workers, janitors, and drug store employees-i.e, the working class.
This piece was written by Wayne Dupree on March 29, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.
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