Re-Visit to the Farragut Houses with NYCHA Representative Cyriaca Decaille

Learning Places Fall 2015 SITE REPORT Re-Visit to the Farragut Houses with NYCHA Representative Cyriaca Decaille

Norma Iris Colon

11.10.2015

INTRODUCTION In today’s meeting at the development Management office, 237 Nassau St, Brooklyn, NY 11201- Building #1, on November 2, 2015 we revisited the Farragut Houses and meet with a NYCHA representative Cyriaca Decaille, when we arrived she introduce herself to us by giving a brief introduction of her self and then we walked around she proved information with regards to the Farragut Houses and services they provide for the tenants, as well as how the developments are

administer. Ms. Decaille gave a full description about how management manages the Farragut Houses. I got new information that I was not aware of, now I got a clear picture of how the Farragut Houses are administered.

PRE-VISIT REFLECTION

Our visit on November 2, 2015 will be to revisit the Farragut Houses and meet with a NYCHA representative; I am thrilled for this visit because we will have the opportunity to meet a

NYCHA Worker, we will be able to ask question and get answer to our questions

I am hopeful to get concrete information so that I can get a better understanding of the community as well as the people that lives in the Farragut Houses as well, and how NYCHA manages the Farragut Houses – the programs that they offer.

1 SITE DOCUMENTATION (photos/sketches)

SITE OBSERVATIONS

1. Building-1, Development Management Office 237 Nassau Street Brooklyn NY, 11201 2. On this beautiful sunny day I saw about 10 maintenance workers. 3. Building-6 228 York Street Brooklyn NY 11201-Senior citizen center, community center and Computer Lab. 4. Went inside a Farragut house-building #2, at 234 Sands Street Brooklyn NY 11201. 5. I saw cameras inside the lobby of building #2 6. I saw a bus stops B57, B61, B69, to Nassau walk and Navy Street 7. As we were leaving I saw several police cars.

QUANTITATIVE DATA

Subject Data

How many buildings 10

Maintenance Workers About 10

Number of elevators per 2 elevator in each building building

Number of Schools 3

Senior Citizen Center 1

(Section 3 employment) REES = Resident Economic, Job training, English as a second language, GED programs Empowerment & Sustainability

How many Central Power 1Central Power Plant for the entire development Plant Generator

QUESTIONS AND HYPOTHESIS

QUESTIONS: 1. Is there a waiting list for NYCHA affordable housing apartment? 2. For people that live in the Farragut houses are there any assistant programs to help pay for rent for example Section 8? 3. What is the average family income? 4. What is the monthly rent? 5. How many apartments per floor? 6. How many Central Plant generators are there?

HYPOTHESIS: 1. As of 2015 there is 270,201 families on waiting list for public housing. 2. No one in the Farragut Houses development has section 8 because the Farragut Houses are directly funded by the Federal development. 3. Average family income is about 23,000 but some family can make up to 100,000 dollars. 4. The monthly average rent is 30% of income, therefore, a family on Public assistance can pay

4 $200 a month, $460 dollars and other family can pay $1500, rent can vary it deepens on the household’s income and size of apartment. 5. There are 14 Floors, each floor has 10 apartments .14*10=140 total apartments per Building 6. There is only 1 Central power Plant for the entire development.

SUMMARY / POST VISIT REFLECTION My re-visiting to the Farragut Houses was great, the NYCHA representative Cyriaca Decaille, was pleasant and approachable, she share lots of information and that was very helpful, It is great to know that most of the surroundings of the Farragut houses neighborhood, which consist of the 10 developments, fences around the developments, playground, parking lots and parks are all property of NYCHA. They have tenant watch in four of their building; therefore, some of the development is cleaner than others.

They have a residential association and volunteer tenant association, which organizes many of the free programs for their resident called health youth-community center they offer afterschool program, GED preparation, English as a second language and much more: Construction Section 3- Rees stands for office of Resident Economic Empowerment and Sustainability; they organize services with local partners to support residence to increase the tenant’s income. This free Job training program is to no cost to the resident but resident must be willing to work and want it- when there is construction in one of the Farragut houses they must employed some of the residents if not they will not get the contract to do the job. One other thing that I found very interesting was that anyone could apply for an apartment in the Farragut houses they must be found eligible and pass all requirements. There is no credit check it goes by income, family size. Also anyone applying must not have a criminal record or be a sex offender but one must keep in mind that there is a long waiting list to get into one of the Farragut’s developments.

5 REFERENCES TO EXPLORE HYPOTHESIS

1. http://www1.nyc.gov/site/nycha/about/developments/1950archives.page 2. http://www1.nyc.gov/site/nycha/about/developments.page 3. http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/html/developments/bklynfarragut.shtml 4. http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nycha/downloads/pdf/Farragut.pdf 5. http://www1.nyc.gov/site/nycha/about/reports.page 6. http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nycha/downloads/pdf/factsheet.pdf 7. http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nycha/downloads/pdf/res_data.pdf 8. https://eapps.nycha.info/NychaMetrics 9. https://eapps.nycha.info/NychaMetrics/Home/Glossary 10. https://eapps.nycha.info/NychaMetrics/Charts/PublicHousingChartsTabs/?section=public_housin g&tab=tab_repairs 11. http://www.nyc.gov/html/ceo/downloads/pdf/nns_15.pdf 12. http://www.nyc.gov/html/ceo/downloads/pdf/CEO_AR_2013-14_Data_Full%20Report.pdf 13. http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nycha/downloads/pdf/nycha-2012-annual-report.pdf 14. http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nycha/downloads/pdf/hra-advisors-nycha-economic-impact- 20130912.pdf 15. https://eapps.nycha.info/NychaMetrics/Charts/PublicHousingChartsTabs/?section=public_housin g&tab=tab_repairs 16. http://opportunitynycha.org 17. http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycha/html/community/rees-info.shtml 18.