That is more than 80 percent of the Housing Authority’s residents. Housing officials said that those numbers covered the period from Oct. 1 to Jan. 22, and involved 143,000 apartments. Mr. Johnson retorted: “We are going to do oversight in a fulsome manner.”The presence of Mr. Carter, the city’s lead lawyer, at the hearing was highly unusual and Mr. Johnson and Mr. Torres pressed him to explain why he was there. Mr. Torres said that there were 2,395 heat outages in calendar year 2017, compared to 1,360 the previous year. “People in public housing deserve the very best living standard we can give them with the money we have,” Mr. de Blasio said, stressing the deep financial challenges of the Housing Authority.

Source: New York Times February 07, 2018 00:13 UTC