Financially Strapped City Agency Annually Pays $200 Million to...City

2008_07_nycha.jpgOh, the wacky world of municipal agency billing! The New York City Housing Authority, the city agency which manages the city's public housing, pays the city $200 million in fees for services including water, trash, and police protection. The NYCHA also has a deficit of $170 million, and the NY Times looks at the issues involved. To city officials, these fees are small relative to what they could really be charged. To others, it's crazy that the city is forcing an agency with financial problems to pay up, especially when services are being cut back.

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wow go after public housing when people can hardly feed themselves or find decent private housing. Its funny that so many diplomats in the city owe millions in unpaid parking tickets but why go after them its not like they have money

sounds like the first volley shot to privatization and selling off said properties to bloomberg's buddies. I hope the city and state has a big enough army.
thankfully Pb is cheap and can be stockpiled.
keep your powder dry, y'all.

Selling off the Fulton Houses in Chelsea alone may pay off the whole debt.

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Why does NY City have a housing authority in the first place? Why are my taxes paying someone else's rent?

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