City Hall sure knows how to give the cold shoulder to pesky NYCHA tenants.
The social-justice nonprofit Community Voices Heard last week organized a mass call-in, urging residents demand a tenfold hike in funding to repair the city’s dilapidated public housing.
The group reports that City Hall responded by rerouting calls from NYCHA tenants to 311. At that point, the activists gave tenants the number to the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs — which quickly reacted by just letting calls go straight to voicemail.
Way to show you care, City Hall.
Oh, Mayor de Blasio did put some help for NYCHA in his new budget: $200 million to upgrade aging boilers and heating systems at 20 projects.
But the renovations won’t finish before 2022. Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. rightly called that “cold comfort for the tenants of NYCHA.”
All this, while the mayor continues to defend the agency’s chief, Shola Olatoye, while replacing other top NYCHA execs.
Yet, as we noted last week, his claims that Olatoye has worked miracles with her budget turn out to be utter bull.
For whatever reason, de Blasio’s plainly just hoping to hold on until angry tenants give up — which tells you plenty about how he truly feels about “the other New York.”