New York City Housing Authority
The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) provides housing for low and moderate income residents throughout the five boroughs of New York City. NYCHA also administers a citywide Section 8 Leased Housing Program in rental apartments. Many of its facilities are known popularly as "projects", and are associated with poverty and crime. As a security measure, these premises are patrolled by a special unit of the NYPD, the housing police, officially the New York City Police Department Housing Bureau.
NYCHA was created in 1934. At the end of 1935, NYCHA dedicated their first development, called First Houses, located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The authority is the largest public housing authority in North America. NYCHA's Conventional Public Housing Program has 181,581 apartments (as of July 20, 2005) in 345 developments throughout the city.
NYCHA has approximately 15,000 employees serving about 175,116 families and approximately 417,328 authorized residents. Based upon the 2000 Census, NYCHA's Public Housing represents 8.6% of the City's rental apartments and is home to 5.2% of the City’s population. NYCHA residents and Section 8 voucher holders combined occupy 12.7% of the City's rental apartments.[citation needed]
NYCHA Buildings
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Bronx
- Adams Houses
- Baychester Houses
- Betances Houses
- Boston Road Plaza
- Boston Secor Houses
- Boynton Avenue Rehabs
- Bronx River Houses
- Bronx River Addition
- Bronxchester Houses
- Bronxdale Houses
- Butler Houses
- Castle Hill Houses
- Clason Point Gardens
- Eastchester Houses
- Edenwald Houses
- High Bridge Houses
- Jackson Houses
- Melrose Houses
- Millbrook Houses
- Mitchell Houses
- Monroe Houses
- Morrisania Air Rights
- Patterson Houses
- Sackwern Houses
- Saint Ann's Houses
- Sedgwick Houses
- Soundview Houses
Brooklyn
- Boulevard Houses
- Breukelen Houses
- Brownsville Houses
- Coney Island Houses, Coney Island
- Cypress Hills Houses
- Gowanus Houses
- Ingersoll-Whitman Houses
- Linden Houses
- Marcy Houses
- Marlboro Houses
- Nostrand Houses
- Pink Houses
- Red Hook Houses, Red Hook; the location of the 1991 film, Straight Out of Brooklyn
- Roosevelt Houses
- Sheepshead Bay Houses
- Tompkin Houses
- Van Dyke Houses
- Wyckoff Gardens
Manhattan
- Harlem River Houses
- Lillian Wald Houses
- St. Nicholas Houses, Harlem
- John Haynes Holmes Towers
- Taft Houses
- Alfred E Smith Houses
- Polo Ground Houses
Queens
- Edgemere Houses
- Queensbridge Houses, the largest public housing unit in New York
- Ravenswood Houses
- Redfern Houses
- Pomonok Houses
Staten Island
- Stapleton Houses
- Berry Houses
- Todt Hill Houses
- Richmond Terrance Houses/Cassidy Place Houses
- Mariner's Harbor Houses
- South Beach Houses