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New York Values: NYCHA’s new guidelines for rehabilitation of public housing push for sustainability and preservation

Architect's Newspaper, May 26, 2017


“This will impact all of our capital projects,” Bruce Eisenberg said. “We have a five-year plan of scheduled projects, and so we really wanted to raise the bar of design in how we execute them. This is a roadmap to enable us to do that.” It has implications for a vast and practically unending scope of work. If fully funded, renovation of NYCHA projects, which comprise 2,500 acres in 328 complexes containing 125,000 units and serving more than 400,000 residents, would require $17 billion in current capital costs. Allocations over the next three years amount to $784.4 million from the city’s budget.