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Tenants, advocates raise complaints about RAD/PACT conversions, rent increases and recertification errors
Summary
Council members and tenant advocates told the Committee on Public Housing that NYCHA’s RAD/PACT conversions and related management changes have produced rent increases, recertification disputes and repair problems for residents; NYCHA said most residents will be converted but acknowledged implementation gaps and committed to targeted outreach.
Lawyers, tenants and council members used a Committee on Public Housing hearing to press NYCHA on problems arising from RAD and PACT conversions — including disagreements over recertifications, alleged rent increases and repair backlogs that, advocates say, have led to subsidy terminations and court actions.
NYCHA told the committee it has a pipeline that could convert up to 62,000 units from older Section 9 public-housing subsidies to project-based Section 8 contracts through PACT; the agency said about 27,000 units had already converted and that close to 40,000 units were actively in resident engagement. “The PACT program has a…
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