A troubled agency that is $50 million in debt?????

Harold Marder, the agency spokesman, needs to wake up!!!!

He says " It is time for New York State to renew its commitment to public housing "

When will they realize that that other cities like Chicago have the right idea in tearing down their massive projects and move towards alternative housing.

This system is not working, and will not work even if they find the $50 million to close the budget gap!

These projects are just dragging the whole area down including the people who live in these disgusting buildings

GET RID OF THE PROJECTS!!!!

Public Housing in Harlem Article & $50M debt. They quote a woman who's been living there since 1980. Shouldn't the reporter have asked that person in 27 years have you ever desired to improve your lot in life, your housing situation?

And they'recomplaining? We've really done a great job in creating a welfare state have we not? Why teach a person how to fish? Makes no sense, let's just keep giving them fish off our tax dollars, that way they'll never have to actually learn how to fish for themselves.

The person is complaining about a hole in the wall in their shower? Is it such a crazy idea for someone to roll up their sleeves, spend a few bucks at the hardware store and fix it yourself? For your own dignity and personal sense of comfort with your surroundings? How about springing $75 for a local fix-it man? In context of the benefit your receive (virtually free housing) is this too much to ask for?

I well recall a conversation I once had with a person in the park. It was the peak of Summer and I was complaining about how potential Con Edison bill and trying to figure out a way to better economize my AC use. The person told me they just ran their AC all day. When I asked about the cost of that they told me nothing, the City pays for it. You mean I pay for it, the Public housing people enjoy full time all the time AC with no worries of a Con Ed bill, while me, the working stiff has to economize and pay their bill. Great system we have isn't it.

Where's their incentive to leave their situation? Wasn't it to be a 2 year deal tops and not a way of life? And they're complaining? In the article, the stove is not there?

Boo Hoo. If it was up to me, there would be no stove, no fridge, no anything. Why? I want to see the projects to be miserable, a terrible place to live, an unbearable place to live even for people with low to no standards. Why? Maybe, just maybe if life was rough, the welfare people will be motivated to improve their situation, ya think?

I wish it smelled like a fart in the air around the clock, I wish they City set up loud speakers and played Barry Manilow and Niel Sedaka and Niel Diamond music around the clock at the projects, I wish there were conditions to make these people who refuse to learn how to fish, get motivated and want to fish and get on their feet.

I'm all for helping someone get back on their feet, I will chip in and provide food, housing, transportation, you name it. However that is not a lifetime entitlement, oh no.

$50M in debt? Tell you what, let's sell all those projects from 112th to 115th on Lenox clear across East toward Lexington. We can pay the $50 and solve the national debt at the same time. And the people? Yonkers exist for a reason. Oh, I forget, the welfare class is not only entitled to near free housing in one of the most expensive cities in the world, they're entitled to that housing adjacent to Central Park, of course.

Love this City, working folks are priced out of Manhattan all the time and forced to be responsible and relocate. The Welfare class? The notion of being priced out of Manhattan does not exist for the Welfare class, they have no pressures to be fiscally responsible, in fact we give them incentive not to. Yes, I would love to live in the Martin Luther King Projects on 112th and Lenox in a 2 bedroom project with free electricity for $250 per month (a typical rent for an 800-900' 2 bedroom in the projects there. As it now stands I pay $1,650 for a 1 bedroom near Convent, and I fear I will be priced out and have to move to the Bronx.

Getridoftheprojects