Prosecutors agreed to file documents dismissing the case within 14 days of the monitor`s appointment, in accordance with the agreement. The complaint filed by federal prosecutors in June accused the NYCHA of HUD of deceitful and the public of the extent of lead and other uncertain conditions in developments that house about 400,000 tenants. The city has agreed to inform HUD within five working days of learning that a child has a high level of lead in the blood, according to the settlement plan. The then mayor, Mike Bloomberg, and NYCHA settled the matter with an executive order that promised aggressive reforms and cleanup delays. Since it was authorized as a class action, the agreement originally applied to all 177,000 public housing units, placing them all under the jurisdiction of Manhattan Judge William Pauley. The agreement calls for the immediate restoration of lead paint in homes with children under the age of 6 and, for more than two decades, the complete reduction of all lead paints in Nycha`s developments. When the agreement was signed on January 31, 2019, it included Section III, paragraph 15, which stated that when a dwelling was converted to ADR, “the obligations under that agreement would no longer apply to these transformations from the conclusion of the applicable transaction.” The legal text on page 4 of the 29-page document means that rad buildings are not subject to the same oversight as other NYCHA complexes. The agreement meant that Mayor Bill de Blasio had avoided the embarrassment of full support for the city`s housing agency, the largest and oldest public housing system in the country, home to more than 400,000 low-income New Yorkers. HUD Secretary Ben Carson said: “This historic agreement marks a new era for public housing in New York City, where families and their children occupy the top spot. New York and New York State have always made a commitment to revive NYCHA.
The collaboration of federal, regional and municipal officials will significantly improve the lives of the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who call NYCHA at home. The agreement will also replace the authority`s interim president, Stanley Brezenoff, whom the mayor introduced last year to lead Nycha in the wake of a lead paint scandal and the departure of the authority`s president. In September 2018, more than 50 NYCHA tenants attended a public hearing on the proposed transaction. She and hundreds of others who made written statements described the serious health hazards in their homes.