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Banks notes PAC on-time resolution dropped and asks about pre-development responsibility

New York City Council · Sep 22, 2026 · starts 2:07:03 · 3 min 46 sec

Banks notes PAC on-time work order resolution fell to 74.5% in 2025 from higher rates in prior years and asks whether managers are struggling. Beck says the PAC portfolio has grown rapidly and managers are handling capital repairs simultaneously; she also says NYCHA remains responsible until the conversion date during a 12-to-18-month pre-development period.

Chris Banks

When it comes to the percentage of work orders resolved on time at the PAC developments, the average, I believe, is 74.5% of the time.

Chris Banks

And this was in the time of 2025 compared to 87.5% of the time in 2024 and 90.75% in this.

Chris Banks

time in 2023.

Chris Banks

Are PAC property managers struggling to address work orders as more and more developments are converted?

Heather Beck

Thank you for that question.

Heather Beck

I think there's a couple layers to that, if I can just give some context.

Heather Beck

I think what happens

Heather Beck

or has happened over the past couple of years is the portfolio of the number of units that have converted has grown.

Heather Beck

Right.

Heather Beck

So now we're up to over 32,000 apartments.

Heather Beck

All of those apartments, when they convert into the Section 8 portfolio, have a significant amount of capital needs that are needed in them.

Heather Beck

And there is an immediate influx of work and work orders that is handed to the property manager while they're in the middle of completing the capital repairs.

Heather Beck

So those two things are happening essentially at the same time.

Heather Beck

They must resolve the work orders even while they're...

Heather Beck

You know, trying to work through an entire replacement of the boiler system.

Heather Beck

So sometimes the repair and resolution time is not met, certainly.

Heather Beck

And you can see online there are percentages where the on-time resolution is not 100%.

Heather Beck

And that's because they are working through those larger capital investments at the same time.

Chris Banks

When a development is converted to Rad Pack,

Chris Banks

Once the conversion takes place, and this is not after all the leases are signed or you meet your threshold to the amount of leases that are needed to be signed,

Chris Banks

who's responsible for the day-to-day operations or for the existing repair issues?

Chris Banks

During that process leading up to when the rehab starts?

Heather Beck

So when we select a partner team, we call that pre-development, and that's a process that we're doing with the resident leaders at each of our sites.

Heather Beck

So they are working with us to interview and select property managers.

Chris Banks

So during pre-development, who's responsible for maintaining the property?

Heather Beck

NYCHA is responsible up until the day that we convert, and then immediately after the next day is when the PACT partner property manager...

Chris Banks

So up until the day you convert, meaning...

Chris Banks

The first community engagement meeting?

Heather Beck

No, there's a date.

Chris Banks

Or the actual signing of the leases?

Heather Beck

There's a conversion date for each of the properties.

Heather Beck

So as an example...

Chris Banks

So how far is the conversion date from the community engagement meetings?

Heather Beck

It can vary based on the development and the amount of engagement work that happens.

Heather Beck

But we call that period the pre-development period, the engagement period.

Heather Beck

That can last 12 to 18 months or it can last up to two years.

Chris Banks

So during that 12 to 18 months or two years, NITRA is responsible for maintaining the property.

Chris Banks

Correct.

Chris Banks

Okay.