NYCHA Chair and CEO Greg Russ (photo: Office of governor Kathy Hochul)

New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Chair and CEO Greg Russ spoke at some length Thursday morning about the recently-passed New York City Public Housing Preservation Trust, which promises a new fundraising mechanism to help repair 25,000 units of housing within the NYCHA portfolio, and how it figures into the larger picture of efforts being made to rescue the city’s crumbling public housing.

The event, part of the CityLaw series hosted by New York Law School, featured an introduction by Ross Sandler, law professor

NYCHA's Eastchester Garden Houses (photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)

For decades, government officials, advocates, and residents have debated the best path forward for New York City public housing while conditions have deteriorated and the price tag for urgent capital repairs and operational costs has boomed.

The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) faces an estimated capital need of $40 billion to address mold, lead paint, broken boilers and elevators, and a host of other needs critical to stable

NYCHA Chair Greg Russ (photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)

*This story was published in partnership with New York Focus.*

With a week left in the legislative session, New York lawmakers shelved a city-backed plan that aimed to revamp 25,000 NYCHA apartments.

On May 21, with just ten working days to go in this year’s session, New York lawmakers added a major item to their docket: a ...

NYCHA Chair Greg Russ (photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)

With so much attention focused on the COVID-19 catastrophe and the 2020 elections, our leaders and the media have all but overlooked the importance of a plan to improve the lives of 300,000 low-income and working-class New Yorkers, many of them people of color. The plan merits support from all of New York’s elected officials.

New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Chair Gregory Russ has produced an innovative ...

NYCHA is on the brink (photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)

Despite significant attention from Mayor Bill de Blasio and some from Governor Andrew Cuomo, the New York City Housing Authority, public housing home to more than 400,000 New Yorkers, continues to crumble. While both the mayor and governor, as well as many others, point to federal disinvestment in NYCHA, dissatisfied elected officials say that initial drafts of next fiscal year’s state and city budgets aren’t sufficiently addressing the problem.

As they push for more funding to

What's The [Data] Point? Episode 88 -- 6 months, with NYCHA CEO Gregory Russ [You can download What's The [Data] Point? wherever you get your podcasts, including on iTunes]

Six months is the time the New York City Housing Authority has to develop a reorganization plan. New NYCHA Chair & CEO Greg Russ headlined a Citizens Budget Commission event to discuss working with the

Chair Gregory Russ visiting a NYCHA complex (photo: @NYCHA)

“These first few months of our work have revealed NYCHA as an organization fraught with serious problems in structure, culture, and direction, and perhaps even worse,” wrote Bart Schwartz, the new federal monitor of the city’s public housing authority, in his first progress report, released July 22.

Three weeks later, this past Monday, Gregory Russ arrived in Manhattan for his first day of work as NYCHA’s new Chair and CEO, with an enormous task in front of him.

NYCHA’s short- and long-term futures