The City Council is moving to fix the Housing Authority, starting by replacing a bungling computer system that moves to evict tenants after it loses their paperwork.
The planned NYCHA reforms will be announced Friday by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Public Housing Committee Chair Rosie Mendez.
The top recommendation is to change a situation that’s left hundreds of tenants of subsidized Section 8 apartments frustrated. NYCHA has been flooded with complaints by tenants who say the new automated system loses their applications, then moves to evict them.
Quinn and Mendez also attacked NYCHA’s stunning backlog of 340,000 apartment repair requests, some of which aren’t set to be fixed until 2014.
The moves follow a Daily News investigation that uncovered rampant incompetence at NYCHA, the city’s biggest landlord serving 600,000 tenants.
Quinn and Mendez singled out another issue uncovered by The News — NYCHA’s inability to track its sprawling system of procuring supplies and contractors.
The News found NYCHA had stashed away $150 million of “uncontrolled inventory” in 5,000 warehouses across the city, some $30 million of which is now too old or too damaged to be of use.
