BP Adams Releases Statement On Discovery Of Expanded Lead Paint Exposure Crisis At NYCHA

Press release from the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President:

October 22 2020

“We are past the point of scandal in the massive lead paint exposure in NYCHA apartments, where the extent of the potential contamination to children under the age of six has tripled beyond its original contention. The lack of care in this most fundamental of responsibilities — ensuring the health and safety of our most vulnerable tenants — demands legal accountability. Families deserve justice for the systemic crisis of mismanagement in the bureaucracy of our public housing. I will never stop fighting for that justice, and I am grateful for the work of the NYCHA Federal Monitor in exposing the truth and laying out a path to real progress, which must include additional resources from our partners in Albany and Washington.

“The only way we will get a real turnaround at NYCHA is real-time, data-driven accountability and transparency of its asset management. That’s what I have laid out in my plan for NYCHAStat that City Hall committed to at our behest two years ago but has yet to implement.”

This press release was produced by the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President. The views expressed are the author's own.