NextGeneration NYCHA: First 100 Days
Marking NextGeneration (NextGen) NYCHA’s first 100 days, Chair and CEO Shola Olatoye announced progress, major achievements and reforms since the Authority’s 10-year strategic plan was launched in May. With increased transparency, infrastructure improvements, and stakeholder engagement, NYCHA is taking meaningful steps to change the way it does business and become a more modern, effective and efficient landlord to more than 400,000 New Yorkers.
“NextGen is about using every tool available to keep NYCHA open for business— each strategy is about increased accountability, preservation and getting NYCHA’s fiscal house in order,” said Chair and CEO Shola Olatoye in a statement released to stakeholders, elected officials and media.
In September, resident and stakeholder engagement started at NextGen Neighborhood sites of Holmes Towers, in Manhattan, and Wyckoff Gardens, in Brooklyn. The initiative will generate revenue to reinvest into these developments by leveraging a 50-50 split of market-rate and affordable housing units built on underutilized land on development grounds.
The Community Development Department collected feedback from residents at a series of visioning and other meetings while residents learned more about the new mixed-income housing. Residents provided input on the scope of the project and the way its revenue will be reinvested in their developments’ existing buildings through major capital repairs, such as roofs, new kitchens or updated bathrooms. NYCHA is providing unprecedented transparency in tracking NextGen’s progress.
NYCHA’s Metrics Database tracks repairs and program data by development; the Physical Needs Assessment summarizes existing building conditions at each development; Contract Disclosures detail all open capital construction bids from the past five years; and Award Results provide monthly updates on all contracts, proposals and bids.
“Over the past few months, we’ve seen considerable progress, and there is more work that must be done to become the landlords our residents deserve,” Chair Olatoye said.
