By Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Benjamin Weiser
A federal judge rejected a sweeping
settlement on Wednesday that would have appointed a monitor to oversee
the troubled New York City Housing Authority and required the city to
pump at least $1.2 billion into repairs.
The judge, William H. Pauley III, also strongly suggested that the federal government should take over the authority instead.
In
a scathing opinion, Judge Pauley deplored the “breathtaking scope” of
the squalid living conditions in the city’s public housing complexes. He
rebuked the city for its mismanagement of the agency, and said the
federal government had abdicated its legal responsibility to overhaul the nation’s largest stock of public housing that is home to about 400,000 vulnerable New Yorkers.
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Source: The New York Times (via Empire Report New York)
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