The Listings Project New York (2024)

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The Public Housing Hustle: Let's start with the big kahuna: the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). These guys manage a whopping 335 public housing developments across all five boroughs. That's enough apartments to house a small country (and probably with more interesting characters).

The majority of NYCHA developments were built between 1945 and 1965. Unlike most cities, New York depended heavily on city and state funds to build its housing after the Federal Housing Act of 1937 expired and a new bill wasn't agreed upon until the Federal Housing Act of 1949, rather than just the federal government.

If the listing asks for money to tour a home or to acquire a rental application, it's most likely a scam. Scammers will ask for these and disappear once they get paid. “You should never have to pay money just to see a house,” Ghavami said.

They were named Housing Projects, because they were established to house disenfranchised individuals, within the radius of upper middle and middle class residents, offering better schooling opportunities, so that those in the housing projects would begin to assimilate their surroundings.

Jay-Z, the rapper, grew up in the Marcy Houses in Brooklyn. Wesley Snipes, the actor, in the Monroe Houses in the Bronx. Marc Anthony, the salsa singer, in the Metro North Houses in East Harlem. Mike Tyson and Hector Camacho, the boxers, and a deep bench of basketball players all came up through the projects.

South Jamaica Houses is a housing project in South Jamaica, Queens, New York. It is nicknamed "40 Projects." The original complex, South Jamaica I Houses opened in 1940, while the second complex, South Jamaica II Houses, opened in 1954.

“The Projects” is an old slang term for government subsidized affordable housing for low income individuals.

Which borough in NYC has the most projects? ›

For the first time in the 13 year span, Brooklyn was outpaced in 2023 in new housing development, with the Bronx clocking in at 9,842 new units and Brooklyn trailing at 9,271. Nonetheless, the borough still tracked thousands more new units built in 2023 than 10 years ago, when in 2013, 4,562 new units were built.

The complex opened in 1939 and is the largest housing project in North America. Queensbridge is located in Queens Community District 1, and its ZIP Code is 11101.

NYCHA - About

The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the largest public housing authority in North America, was created in 1935 to provide decent, affordable housing for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers.

NYCHA serves 360,970 residents in 177,569 apartments across 335 conventional public housing and PACT developments. There are 330,118 residents in 161,585 apartments within 274 conventional public housing program (Section 9) developments, and 30,852 authorized residents in 15,984 apartments within 61 PACT developments.

Apartments.com works hard to ensure that you have a positive experience using our site, but we cannot guarantee that our sites are 100 percent free from false or fraudulent listings. That being said, there are a few easy ways to ensure that a listing has been verified by Apartments.com. First, look in the header.

Unfortunately, rental scams on all sorts of platforms are rife. But the two most commonly used are Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace. Why? Because neither platform requires a user to verify their identity, making posting fraudulent listings risk-free for scammers.

To create fake listings, scammers craft property ads that feature properties at unrealistically low prices. They'll use stolen photos and descriptions from legitimate posts to create listings that look real.

Along with low-cost public housing comes an increased crime rate. As a result, the projects can be dangerous. Drug-fueled gang violence and poverty-motivated petty theft make most public housing projects a seriously rough place to live in.