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Councilman Banks emphasizes the critical need for transparency in NYCHA operations
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Councilman Banks stresses the importance of transparency for all city agencies, particularly for NYCHA due to its dual role as a public authority and landlord. He emphasizes that NYCHA is accountable to both the city and its over 300,000 residents.
- Transparency is crucial for residents to understand issues affecting their homes
- NYCHA should be held to at least the same standard as private landlords, if not higher
- Lack of transparency leaves residents uninformed about critical housing issues
Chris Banks
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Today's hearing focuses on transparency.
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Transparency is an essential expectation for all city agencies, an essential role of the city of the council in its demand for transparency when it is not freely given.
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But transparency is especially vital for NYCHA due to its dual role as both a public authority and a landlord.
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NYCHA is accountable not only to the city in general, but to its over 300,000 public housing residents who rely on and deserve clear and honest answers about the safety and the conditions of their homes.
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Without transparency, residents are left in the dark about critical issues that affect their daily lives from the physical conditions of their apartments to the decisions about building management and governance.
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NYCHA should be held at a minimum to the same standard as private landlords in the city, and ideally ideally even a higher standard as the government body tasked with providing safe and affordable housing for mixed income New Yorkers.