APA 2017 National Planning Conference Session 9108928 Reinventing Public Housing NextGeneration NYCHA Sustainability Agenda

Bomee Jung Vice President, Energy & Sustainability New York City Housing Authority

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NextGeneration NYCHA Comprehensive Sustainability Agenda

NYCHA’s commitment as a landlord to create healthy and comfortable homes that will withstand the challenge of climate change

An invitation to residents and surrounding communities to work with NYCHA to realize a shared long- term vision of equity, sustainability, and resiliency

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Priority Outcome Healthy Indoor Environments

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Priority Outcome Comfortable & Reliable Heat

Priority Outcome Get on the path to 80 X 50 GHG goals

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NextGeneration NYCHA Energy Commitments

Reduce energy intensity by 20% by 2025

Large-scale retrofits via HUD EPC

Scattered-site retrofits: non-HUD funding

Install 25 MW of renewable generation capacity

Solar & DG PPAs

Resiliency

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Context State of the Art in 1939

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Context Still with us in 2017

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2025 Goals: Energy Improving heating/hot water efficiency is critical.

More than 80% of total reduction

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2025 Goals: Energy Past pilots show reductions are achievable

Pilot buildings went from 49% worse than NYC average to 6% better than NYC average

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2025 Goals: Energy Scattered-Site vs. Master-Planned Developments

Energy Performance Contracts address these developments

Weatherization Assistance Program Addresses these developments

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2025 Goals: Energy Piloting New Technologies

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2025 Goals: Resiliency Green Infrastructure for CSO

GI for Combined Sewer Overflow: 39 developments in assessment/design, 3 complete and 1 site in construction

Hope Gardens Before Hope Gardens After

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2025 Goals: Resiliency Green Infrastructure for Cloudburst

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2025 Goals: Resiliency Green Infrastructure for Cloudburst

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2025 Goals: Resiliency Green Infrastructure for Cloudburst

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NextGeneration NYCHA Sustainability Agenda

Bomee Jung Vice President, Energy & Sustainability bomee.jung@nycha.nyc.gov Full agenda is available for download: http://j.mp/green-nycha

Session Title: Reinventing Public Housing in New York City Session Function Code: 9108928 “NYCHA Is Different” Nicholas Dagen Bloom New York Institute of Technology APA 2017 National Planning Conference

Public Housing Endures in NYC. Why?

Williamsburg Houses, 1938-Today

The 1930s Vision

• Modern Apartments • Towers in the Park • Parks and Playgrounds • Community Centers

Modern Apartments: Air, Light, Modern Fixtures

“ . . . to remedy the unsafe and unsanitary housing conditions and the acute shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings for families of lower income . . .” Housing Act of 1937

Banishing Urban Danger Superblock Parks and Playgrounds

Harlem River Houses, 1937

Towers in the Park Inward Focused Repetition and Economy Elevators

Queensbridge Houses Model, ca. 1938

Planned Community Life Community Centers Health and Dental Clinics Early Childhood Education Tenant Meetings

1940s-1960s:

Transformative Decades

• Robert Moses and Urban Renewal • Federal, City, and State Developments • Many BIG Projects (+1000 units) • Public Housing in all Boroughs • Neighborhood Transformation

The Moses Machine Public Housing as Urban Renewal Strategy

Big Projects in Every Borough 37% State Funded 22% City Funded 41% Federal 69 Projects over 1000 units

“The Housing Act of 1949 . . . establishes as a national objective the achievement as soon as feasible of a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family.” President Harry Truman, 1949

New Neighborhoods Public and Private Renewal Combined

1960s to the Present: Maintaining Control

Context Density, Diversity, and Transit Management Choices Tenant Selection Political Activism Community Services Policing Daily Maintenance

Density Preserved New York (1950): 7,891,957 (2009): 8,391,881

Density Lost St Louis (1950): 857,000 (2010): 319,000

St. Louis, 2010 GIS by Colin Gordon

New York, 2010 GIS by Alasdair Rae

Diversity (1954) African American 33.7%; Puerto Rican 7.4%; White 58.7% (1969) African American 46.2%; Puerto Rican 25.9%; White 27.9% (2012) African American 46.6%; Hispanic 43.4%; Asian 4.3%; White 5.0%

Subway Connectivity 660 Miles, 468 Stations 70% Projects within ½ mile

Tenant Selection Welfare: 11.7% (1962); 11.7% (2015) Working Families: 46.9% (2015) 27.3% under 18 (2015)

“This, after all, is a renting proposition, not a complete gift.” Senator Robert Wagner, 1937

Politics Citizen Activism Federalization Stimulus: $440,000,000

Social Control (1969) 1500 Housing Police, Vertical Patrols (Today) NYPD Housing Bureau, Cameras

Daily Maintenance Large Staff, 11,705 Civil Service Lists 3324 Elevators 450 Elevator Repair Team

• $464 Average Rent, low eviction rate, late payment acceptable.

Debating the Future Billions spent; billions needed. 255 Projects 30 years or older 84 Projects 40-49 years old

Reinventing Public Housing in New York City

General Manager – Michael Kelly, AICO, AIA, LEED G.A. New York City Housing Authority May 6, 2017

BACKGROUND

• Established in 1935

• The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), is the largest public housing authority in North America

• $3.4 billion Annual Operating budget

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BACKGROUND

NYCHA Houses 1 in 14 New Yorkers

NYCHA’s Housing Stock is Aging

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BACKGROUND NYCHA’s Housing Stock is Aging

NYCHA is nearly in every neighborhood Serving over 403K residents

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BACKGROUND

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CHALLENGES Decreased Operating Funds

$1.3 billion loss in Operating Funding since 2001

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CHALLENGES Decreased Capital Funds

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Cumulative Loss vs 2001 Funding Level Annual Capital Grant

$1.4 Billion Loss

30% decrease in Capital Funding since 2001

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In February, NYCHA received a HUD notice of a $28 Million cut in public housing

funds…

CHALLENGES What we are already facing

…AND a $8 Million cut in Section 8 administration

funds

$36 MILLION LOSS IN ONE

MONTH

NEXTGENERATION NYCHA PLAN

Basics of NYCHA’s Strategic Plan

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Financially stable

operations

Attract new resources

Address $17b capital

need

Improve quality of life

for NYCHA residents

NextGeneration NYCHA Strategies

Fund

• 1) Secure relief from City payments

• 2) Improve collection of resident rent and fees

• 3) Lease ground floor spaces

• 4) Reduce central office costs

Operate

• 5) Transform to digital organization

• 6) Localize property management

• 7) Pursue comprehensive sustainability agenda

• 8) Increase safety and security

(Re)Build

• 9) Refine capital planning strategy

• 10) Provide land to support creation of affordable housing units

• 11) Use HUD programs to preserve units

• 12) Adopt design excellence practices

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Engage Residents • 13) Transform from direct service provision to a partnership model • 14) Leverage philanthropic dollars through a 501(c)(3) • 15) Connect residents to quality employment

•Large Capital projects •Building exteriors •Infrastructure

•$17B Capital Needs

Federal

Projects sponsored by Elected Officials

City Capital

•Special Initiatives •MAP program •Mayor’s roof initiative •LL-11 Program •Vacant apt program

City Initiatives

•Insurance, FEMA & CDBG funds

•Over $3B projected

Sandy Recovery

•Energy & Water ECMs: boilers, apt temp sensors & interior lighting

•WAP: windows/boilers

Energy & Sustainability

•Boilers •Elevators •DASNY: Security & Quality of Life

State Funding

NEXTGENERATION NYCHA PLAN FUND

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NEXTGENERATION NYCHA PLAN OPERATE

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The Mayor’s Office in partnership with NYCHA is leading two initiatives to make many neighborhoods safer, healthier, and stronger. MAP seeks to increase neighborhood safety in and around 15 high crime public housing developments by supporting employment, access to benefits, design improvements, and joint problem solving

Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP)

NEXT GENERATION NYCHA PLAN OPERATE

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NEXT GENERATION NYCHA PLAN OPERATE

Mayor’s Action Plan (Lighting & CCTV)

Capital Program

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NEXT GENERATION NYCHA PLAN (RE)BUILD, PRESERVE

NEXT GENERATION NYCHA PLAN (RE)BUILD, PREERVE

City Invests $1 Billion to Fix NYCHA Roofs

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Project Ocean Bay Bayside RAD Application

Units 1400 5200

Capital Investment $325MM $934MM

(20 year PNA)

Jobs Estimate 1,000 2,550

Update Dec 16: Closed

Spring 17: Start Construction

January 2017: ~1700 units

approved

NEXT GENERATION NYCHA PLAN (RE)BUILD, PRESERVE

Rental Assistant Demonstration (RAD)

NEXT GENERATION NYCHA PLAN (RE)BUILD, PRESERVE

Ocean Bay (Bayside)

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NEXT GENERATION NYCHA PLAN (RE)BUILD, NEW

New Construction: 100% Affordable Goal: Create 10,000 units of affording housing and 15,000 jobs in 10 years Affordability – 60% of AMI or below Status – Developers selected: Units – 489 New Units (3 sites) Jobs Estimate – approximately 750 jobs created Van Dyke – Dunn Development Corp Ingersoll – BFC Partners Mill Brook – West Side Federation for Senior

and Supportive Housing

Rendering of Mill Brook Terrace. Will include 156 apartments for low-income seniors and a senior center

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NEXT GENERATION NYCHA PLAN (RE)BUILD, NEW

New Construction: 50/50 Program

Goal: Generate revenue from mixed-income housing for reinvestment into developments

Affordability – 50% of units at 60% AMI and below

Projections – Approx $300-$600MM in revenue and over 10,000 jobs created over next 10 years

Current Units – Approximately 800 New Units

Jobs Estimate – 500 jobs created

Status: Developer selection in process at Wyckoff Gardens and Holmes Towers. Next 2 sites to be announced Spring 2017

Wyckoff Gardens Community Visioning Workshop. 600+ residents engaged in 36 meetings to date at both Wyckoff and Holmes

NEXTGENERATION NYCHA PLAN (RE)BUILD, PRESERVE

Super Storm Sandy Recovery & Resiliency

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Sandy recovery construction at Lower East Side Rehab Group 5.

NEXTGENERATION NYCHA ENGAGE

• Constituency-based engagement

• Leadership development and capacity building

• Targeted outreach

• Connections to services and opportunities

• Formal partnerships that best leverage NYCHA resources.

• Outcome-oriented strategic projects

• Effective service connections that get the “right person” to the “right service”

• Technical assistance and support to improve outcomes

Residents Partners

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How we engage and connect residents to services

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How We’re Structured – The Zone Model

• 15 geographic Zones with an average concentration of 11K households.

• Local staff managing economic opportunity and social service provider networks

• Local staff performing constituency-based engagement

• Effectively leverage NYCHA assets (space, data, customer touch points, policy making ability) to attract partners and improve resident outcomes.

NEXTGENERATION NYCHA ENGAGE

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Received 2M from HUD for Jobs-Plus Program Initiative

which connects residents to job

readiness programs

Graduated 119 residents from Food Business

Pathways

Graduated 521 residents from

Resident Training Academy

Lancelot Brown, Owner of the Jamaican Grill Jerk Center

Connect residents with quality career opportunities & best in-class services

NEXTGENERATION NYCHA ENGAGE

SUMMARY NextGeneration NYCHA Goals

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SUMMARY Snapshot of 2016 accomplishments

SUMMARY

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