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Hundreds of Squatters Took Over Vacant NYCHA Apartments, City Watchdog Finds

Furniture and strollers were strewn across the floor inside a NYCHA apartment occupied by squatters.

More than 600 vacant NYCHA apartments were taken over by squatters over the last few years as the number of empty public housing units spiked, a frustrating trend for the 165,000 applicants stalled on the authority’s waiting list. The city Department of Investigation (DOI) released a report Tuesday revealing that in between January 2022 and […]

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