AGENCY TESTIMONY
Establishment of new departments and funding for NYCHA
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NYCHA established three new departments and units to support compliance with the HUD agreement: the Compliance Department, the Environmental Health and Safety Department, and the Quality Assurance Unit. These teams monitor NYCHA's work, make recommendations, and provide technical assistance.
- A Strategy and Innovation department was created to track NYCHA's progress in meeting agreement deadlines
- The City of New York agreed to provide an additional $2.2 billion in capital funds over the first 10 years of the agreement
- The state has provided more than $1 billion in capital funds since the agreement was signed
Brad Greenburg
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It required the installation of a federal monitor, and a key early advancement at the outset of the agreement was the establishment of 3 new departments and units at NYCHA.
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The compliance department, which I lead, the Environmental Health And Safety Department, and the quality assurance unit.
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Crucially, these new teams have established programs for monitoring NICE's work at its developments, making recommendations for improvements, and then providing technical assistance to the development staff to improve performance.
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We continue to scale up these teams while using data center risk assessments, sampling, and field monitoring to ensure Nitro's compliance with all local state and federal regulations as well as internal policies and procedures.
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We also established a department called Strategy And Innovation to track Nitrous Progress with meeting all the deadlines outlined in the HUD agreement.
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In support of this work, we build dashboards and other analytical reporting tools for each pillar area They provide an array of valuable metrics that guide our efforts.
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When we are not meeting any of the clearly defined data driven benchmarks, the team's responsible developed plans to address these issues.
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Also on this slide, you can see that the city of New York agreed to provide an additional 2.2 $1,000,000,000 in capital funds over the 1st 10 years of the agreement.
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I'd also like to recognize our partners at the state level who have provided more than $1,000,000,000 in capital funds since the agreement was signed to help us deliver some of the capital projects I'll discuss today.
