New York City Housing Authority
The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) provides decent and affordable housing for low and moderate income residents throughout the five boroughs of New York. 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.
NYCHA was created in 1934. By the end of 1935 NYCHA dedicated First Houses, their first development, 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.
- NYCHA Buildings
- Boulevard Houses Brooklyn
- Breukelen Houses Brooklyn
- Butler Houses Bronx
- Coney Island Houses Brooklyn
- Cypress Hills Houses Brooklyn
- Edgemere Houses Queens
- Gowanus Houses Brooklyn
- Harlem River Houses Manhattan
- High Bridge Houses Bronx
- Ingersoll-Whitman Houses Brooklyn
- Lillian Wald Houses Manhattan
- Linden Houses Brooklyn
- Marcy Houses Brooklyn
- Marlboro Houses Brooklyn
- Melrose Houses Bronx
- Millbrook Houses Bronx
- Nostrand Houses Brooklyn
- Patterson Houses Bronx
- Pink Houses Brooklyn
- Queensbridge Houses Queens - largest public housing unit in New York
- Ravenswood Houses Queens
- Red Hook Houses Brooklyn
- Redfern Houses Queens
- Sheepshead Bay Houses Brooklyn
- Soundview Houses Bronx
- St. Nicholas Houses Harlem
- Stapleton Houses Staten Island
- Taft Houses Manhattan
- Van Dyke Houses Brooklyn
- Wyckoff Gardens Brooklyn
- John Haynes Holmes Towers Manhattan