The mood at the Feb. 6 City Council hearing on the breakdown of the Housing Authority’s heating systems was almost as icy as the temperatures several hundred thousand of its residents faced amid those problems for two weeks in January.
The Committee for Public Housing, as well as the one for Oversight and Investigations, grilled NYCHA Chairwoman Shola Olatoye, who was in the hot seat at a hearing last December after the city Department of Investigation revealed a month earlier that she falsely reported that the agency had conducted thousands of lead-paint inspections that never happened.
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