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Last month, Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc across the New York metropolitan area. Millions of New Yorkers were affected by the storm, but few more severely than the city's public housing residents. 35,000 mostly low-income Black and Latino children, families, and elderly and sick residents of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) were left to suffer — in cold, pitch-black apartments without running water — for up to three weeks. It's shameful. And today, NYC's most vulnerable public housing communities along the city's waterfront remain in peril. Officials’ flat-footed response to initial flooding not only dragged out the weeks until power could be safely restored, but profoundly worsened the scope of the damage to residents' homes[3] — throwing the city’s long-standing economic and racial divides into the national spotlight.[4] NYCHA Chairman John Rhea has pledged to refund rent to storm-impacted residents at least for those days spent without essential services — but not until January 2013. In the meantime, NYCHA expects full rent payments upfront for both November and December, acknowledging no responsibility for the serious health, safety and financial toll its negligence continues to take on residents. Please join us in demanding that Chairman John Rhea immediately suspend rent collection for storm-impacted NYCHA residents, and credit payments already made by CLICKING THE TITLE OF THIS POST.

"I am concerned that other housing authorities across the country may also be paying millions to BCG and other consulting firms without fully understanding the drawbacks of such contracts," Grassley wrote. The Daily News reports, "BCG was the only company considered for the job after the firm’s executives reached out to [NYCHA Chairman John] Rhea — who worked for them in the early 1990s."

NYCHA Chairman John Rhea gives a really inspiring talk to the NFL Academy's graduating class