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elizabeth-cooper t1_j1w98u3 wrote

Reply to comment by Flatbush_Zombie in NYCHA residents without heat, hot water on Christmas weekend by 1600hazenstreet

The kind of housing they could afford, even with vouchers, doesn't exist, will never exist in these numbers. And the kind of buildings that do accept vouchers tend to be run by slumlords no better than NYCHA.

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Flatbush_Zombie t1_j1wbz8p wrote

Do you have sources for any of these claims?

According to this report from February 2022 1.9% of all available NYCHA units are vacant, representing about 3.6K vacant apartments.

That number is several hundred larger than the Queensbridge Houses, the largest NYCHA complex and largest public housing complex in North America.

So again, it would have to be a slow process and very well planned and executed, but even a basic amount of research shows this isn't impossible.

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elizabeth-cooper t1_j1wc943 wrote

None of those are affordable housing and/or accepts housing vouchers or they wouldn't be vacant.

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Flatbush_Zombie t1_j1wckex wrote

They are literally vacant NYCHA units, but thank you for letting me know you didn't read any of my sources and have yet to produce your own.

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