Banks requests housing court data and asks why lawsuit was needed for transparency

Can you provide data for FY 2022, FY 23, 24, and 25 on

housing court cases initiated by NYCHA tenants to address unresolved maintenance conditions, including the number of HPD violations associated with those cases?

The number of violations that were corrected by NYCHA after the court filing.

And three, the number of violations that remained unresolved until a court order, stipulation, or the housing court intervention was issued.

So thank you, Chair, for that question.

I have part of that data today for the past year.

We'll have to follow up on the early years, but I can give you the data from September 2025 to present.

Okay.

If you can.

Sure.

Yes.

I appreciate it.

Do you want to give you a for?

Yeah.

You have 25, right?

Yeah, I have 25.

Okay.

Yeah.

So we have, there were 551 orders to show causes commencing an HP case received by our law department.

Of that, out of those cases, there were 5,312 total violations received.

That also, that could actually include a little broader because some violations might come through non-payment cases where a court might also order an HPD inspection in a non-payment case if there's a cross-claim for open repair tickets.

So, and then roughly about 31% of the violations have been closed based on our work order system records.

And we're still working.

This is a new process.

It just came about.

So we're still working with HPD.

So that number is subject to change, but that's where we're at today.

Well, we now know that violations from those inspections basically only started showing up in HPD.

Our line was released since October of 2025.

But after the settlement with the New York lag, why did it take the lawsuit to become transparent?

Thank you, Chair, for that question.

I wasn't involved in that lawsuit, so I can't speak to its outcome.

But I will say that we strive to be transparent on these matters and more transparent.

So a lot of the issue might be data.

Now we have much better data.

As I said, just last year we were getting paper copies of these reports, which are obviously not sufficient to properly track.