#NYC: Albany has long ignored the perils of public housing: both before and during the pandemic & What is to be done? Greg Smith, The City
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🗓️ 16 March 2023
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#NYC: Albany has long ignored the perils of public housing: both before and during the pandemic & What is to be done? Greg Smith, The City
https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/3/13/23638854/nycha-rent-bailout-erap-new-york
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| 0:52.0 | Did not give priority to people living in public housing during the pandemic, during the crisis |
| 0:57.8 | of the globe. |
| 0:58.8 | Greg, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:01.0 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:02.4 | Our colleague, Harry Smith, got in me to your excellent reporting about a story that looks |
| 1:07.2 | to me extremely dynamic, has many moving parts, Albany, two governors at least, the city, |
| 1:14.8 | and not the least the people in public housing deserving of attention. |
| 1:20.1 | There is money, but the money ran out for paying back rent, back during the pandemic period. |
| 1:29.0 | And now there's scrambling, what appears to be scrambling by Albany, to close the gap. |
| 1:35.3 | Why is there a gap? |
| 1:36.9 | Why didn't public housing get the attention from Albany that other renters troubled by |
| 1:41.9 | the pandemic received? |
| 1:42.9 | Good evening to you, Greg. |
| 1:44.6 | Good evening. |
| 1:46.4 | So, to answer that question, we have to do a little bit of time travel. |
| 1:51.2 | And we go back to that wonderful year, 2020, when everybody was trying to figure out what |
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