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Discussion on vacant units in NYCHA properties
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Council Member Avilés expresses concern about the high number of vacant units in NYCHA properties, estimated at around 8,000. Eva Trimble, NYCHA's Chief Operating Officer, provides details on efforts to address this issue.
- NYCHA turned over 4,000 units in 2024, a 52% increase from the previous year
- The authority is turning over about 430 units per month
- 60% of move-ins are transfers, creating new vacancies and making it difficult to reduce the overall number of vacant units
- All turned-over units are now lead-free and asbestos-safe
Alexa Avilés
1:00:48
Yes.
1:00:48
The state 100% should be actually contributing a significant amount to their authority.
1:01:01
In in terms of vacant units, my my understanding is that we are now hovering around an 8,000 number of vacant units across, which gives me a heart attack because the the numbers are increasing when it should be decreasing given the thrust and the funding to get them online.
1:01:23
So what is happening?
Eva Trimble
1:01:25
Thank you, council member.
1:01:27
So, yes, your your numbers are are correct.
1:01:30
We are happy to report that in 2024, we turned over just over 4,000 units, which is a 52% increase from the previous year.
1:01:39
So as we've said in our multiple conversations here, this is a high priority for us and something we've been very focused on improving our production of.
1:01:47
We turn over about four thirty units a month.
1:01:51
However, 60% of the move ins are transfers due to emergency transfers, other needs, reasonable accommodations.
1:01:59
So when 60% of the move ins every month are a transfer, it just creates another vacant unit.
1:02:05
So it's very hard to make progress on the overall number, but I actually think the overall number is less important than our actual productivity here.
1:02:13
So the fact that we've increased production by 52%, it's something we're continuing to look at and hoping to increase further.
1:02:20
But four thirty units a month is the highest number we've had in the past few years.
1:02:25
And I wanna reiterate that these are lead free and asbestos safe apartments.
1:02:32
So this is a tremendous change for us and I think a really important change for public housing that these are units every month coming online free of environmental hazards.