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Federal HA Watchdog Says Staff Shortages Will Limit Progress

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 7/29/19

The Federal monitor in charge of overseeing reforms at the Housing Authority released a report July 22 claiming that the agency’s 326 developments were severely understaffed and had little chance of meeting deadlines to eliminate unsafe and unsanitary conditions.

Federal Monitor Bart Schwartz, who was appointed in February, in his first quarterly report described NYCHA as an organization “fraught with serious problems in structure, culture, and direction, and perhaps even worse.”

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