A City Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) disclosure – provided by The Legal Aid Society – revealed that 1,934 unplanned heat/hot water outages plagued over 131,000 units – 291,537 public housing residents – during the 2018-2019 heat season, according to a new report in The New York Post.

“This data again demonstrates NYCHA’s daily struggle to ensure that public-housing residents have access to working heat and hot water. As the landlord, NYCHA has a legal and moral obligation to ensure that these necessary utilities are functioning properly,” said Lucy Newman, Staff Attorney with the Civil Law Reform Unit at The Legal Aid Society.

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