New York City Housing Authority residents and community advocates this week continued their protests of NYCHA’s infill plan by dropping banners at the proposed infill developments, including the Lower East Side’s Baruch Houses, at right. Under the authority’s plan, some sites on public housing grounds would be leased to private developers to build “80/20” projects, with 80 percent market-rate housing and 20 percent affordable housing. A percentage of the millions of dollars in revenue would go back to the cash-strapped agency to help fund building repairs and defray other costs. As the infill plan moves forward amid a state judge’s recent dismissal of a City Council lawsuit against the plan, residents called on Mayor Bloomberg — now in his final two weeks in office — to give up on the proposal and “Let de Blasio decide” how to raise the money needed to fill NYCHA’s budget gaps.
