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How private management of public housing hurts people with disabilities
July is Disability Pride Month, yet thousands of tenants with disabilities living in privately managed NYCHA buildings have little reason to celebrate. Many are trapped in unsafe and inaccessible apartments thanks to a little-known NYCHA policy that severely limits their ability to transfer apartments — effectively making them prisoners in their own homes or forcibly homeless.
Source: nydailynews.com