Housing Code Violations in NYCHA Units Will Finally Be Made Public

Housing Code Violations in NYCHA Units Will Finally Be Made Public

The city agency that polices housing code violations has for years publicly posted inspection results for all privately-owned housing — but not inspection results in public housing apartments. That’s kept NYCHA tenants in the dark about sometimes dangerous living conditions and the Housing Authority’s failures to remedy them. That’s about to change. Under a settlement reached last month, the Department of Housing & Preservation Development (HPD)…