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HA's Federal Monitor Chides City of Fix-Up

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 6/10/19

The Federal Monitor charged with overseeing reforms at the embattled Housing Authority accused agency officials of not doing enough to get rid of lead paint in thousands of apartments while giving a “misleading” impression to the public that it was.

Bart Schwartz, who was appointed Federal monitor earlier this year, wrote a scathing letter May 30 to NYCHA Interim Chair Kathryn Garcia claiming that agency officials painted a too-optimistic picture at a City Council hearing on the issue earlier last month.

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