Tenants at Bushwick Houses brainstorm how to spend $30k on safety
Tenants of the Bushwick Houses are getting $30,000 in grant money from the Mayor’s Office to come up with new safety and security enhancements.
No one is arguing that $30,000 in grant money from the Mayor’s Office can fully solve safety issues at one of the city’s most violence-plagued pubic housing complexes. With $32 billion needed to upgrade the crumbling infrastructure of the city’s public housing stock — where some of the city’s poorest residents live — $30,000 for specific complexes seems more like a drop in the ocean than a real fix.
But the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice says the grants are about getting NYCHA residents thinking about their own solutions — and giving them a direct, democratic say in what those solutions look like.