Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1997

Keywords

New York City Housing Authority, NYCHA, Housing Preservation and Development, HPD, Private Ownership and Management Program, POMP, Neighborhood Entrepreneur Program, NEP, Housing abandonment

Disciplines

Housing Law

Abstract

This article reviews and evaluates the debate surrounding the management and disposition of city-owned housing in New York City, paying particular attention to those programs that rely on for-profit landlords. The first section reviews the theory and history of housing abandonment by the private sector and the City's responses to it. The second section documents the history of POMP and summarizes the studies that have been made of it by the City, the business-centered advocacy community, and the tenant-centered advocacy community. The third section documents the recent implementation of NEP and preliminary evaluations of it. The final section evaluates these two programs against criteria chosen by the City and analyzes the viability of relying on for-profit landlords as a solution to housing abandonment.

Comments

This article predates the author's affiliation with Cornell Law School.

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