The CLPHA represents some of the largest public housing authorities in the country. Together, CLPHA members own and manage approximately 40% of the national public housing stock. Public housing was established to provide decent and safe rental housing to eligible low-income families, the elderly and people with disabilities. Public housing comes in all sizes and types, from dispersed single-family homes to high-rise apartments for older families.
There are approximately 1.2 million households living in public housing units, managed by some 3300 PHAs. New research from the CLPHA and Econsult Solutions shows that PHAs generate and induce multiple flows of economic activity that benefit those who reside in public housing, as well as employers, governments and local industries. The public housing program provides safe, decent and affordable rental housing to more than 2.2 million low and very low income families, the elderly and people with disabilities. Created in 1934 as the first agency of its kind in the United States, its goal is to provide decent and affordable housing to low and moderate-income New Yorkers in all five boroughs of New York City York.
The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is a public development corporation that provides public housing in New York City and is the largest public housing authority in North America. However, the construction of the First Houses used existing apartment buildings to renovate them, which proved too costly. In 1995, the Mayor of New York City, Rudolph W., merged the New York City Housing Authority Police Department and the New York City Traffic Police into the New York City Police Department. The goal of the New York City Housing Authority is to increase opportunities for low and moderate-income New Yorkers by providing them with affordable housing and facilitating access to public services and community.
they have demolished their high-rise projects and, in most cases, they have replaced them with lower-density housing, those in New York are still fully occupied. NYCHA developments include single and double family homes, apartment units, single flats, and small shared building units, and often have large income disparities with the respective neighborhood or surrounding community. Most public housing agencies are very small, with more than 2,200 agencies that have 250 public housing units or less. There are approximately 1.1 million public housing units that are owned by more than 3,000 housing authorities and are managed by them.
The Authority thrived in partnership with Robert Moses after World War II as part of Moses' plan to clean up old housing and remake New York a modern city. Unlike most cities, New York relied heavily on municipal and state funds to build its homes after the Federal Housing Act of 1937 expired and a new bill was not passed until the Federal Housing Act of 1949, and not just with the federal government.
