Empowering Students to Stop Sexual Violence. Sites/default/files/attachments/Bust_Card.pdf. ‘How to Survive a Plague’ a triumph of activism - Movies. New York’s Public Housing Tenants Sue Over Slow Pace of Repairs. New York City is a slumlord, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday in the Big Apple’s Housing Court. The New York City Housing Authority has more than 400,000 tenants, making it the city biggest landlord.
But delays in repairs have long plagued the agency and the backlog of repairs currently stands at 300,000 word orders, according to the New York Times . More from the Times: More than 300 tenants at the [Alfred E.] Smith Houses who are suing the authority listed numerous repairs needed in their complex of 12 buildings, including leaks, flooding, mold, warped floors, holes in walls, and broken stoves, toilets, doors, windows, buzzers and mailboxes. Former Classmates of Hadiya Pendleton Launch Anti-Violence Movement ‘Project Orange Tree’