Here lies the dialogue of affordable public housing

NYCHA Melrose Houses Community Center, Bronx NY

So, in 2013 I worked as a consultant for NYCHA and I remember the confusion over the closing of the centers. What were residents options? What were the options of NYCHA employees? Was this something the community should oppose? 

When NYCHA closed almost 70 community and senior centers... I was disturbed to say the least. I was just beginning to understand public housing, social services, the benefits of community centers and now the city believed it was in their best interest to close them.

 Raised by parents who believed in making do with what they could provide - It wasn't a thing of pride but, a question of survival. For some reason, welfare, public housing were negative. more deadlier than a Trojan horse. So, as I entered the world of NYCHA, my goal was to find out if the projects were as bad as they seemed.

I was pleasantly surprised to learn of  all the great perks NYCHA residents enjoyed: day cares, income-based rent, resident employmenth help; etc. Community and senior centers were just another one of them. It was said that most of the community centers would be come sponsor sites, with contracts administered by DFTA and DYCD.

Well, here is Melrose Community Center a sponsor site for someone who understands all to well the conflicting dialogue conservatives and liberals have around the direction of affordable public housing.