Governor Cuomo has promised an additional $250 million in funding to fix dire living conditions at the embattled Housing Authority, including mold, heating outages and lead-paint — but Mayor de Blasio said he’ll believe it when he sees it.
After touring apartments at Harlem’s Taft Houses March 17, the Governor announced that the money would come in addition to the $300 million the state had already set aside for NYCHA. The agency has come under fire in recent months for its failure to perform required lead-paint inspections dating back to the Bloomberg administration and heating outages that affected 80 percent of its residents.
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