According to new data, heat and hot water outages have not improved much in the city's public housing developments over the past two years. Numbers obtained by the Legal Aid Society show that while heat and overall water outages decreased slightly last year, the number of hot water complaints went up. These numbers are from the heat season, which runs from October to May.

This comes as Mayor Eric Adams and other elected officials last weekend slammed NYCHA over a months-long hot water outage at a development in the Rockaways. Ellen Davidson, a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society’s Civil Law Reform Unit, joined Bobby Cuza on “Inside City Hall” Thursday to talk about this and more.

In response to the Legal Aid Society’s report, NYCHA released the following state:

“NYCHA has demonstrated significant progress since 2019 in addressing service outages at its developments through improvements to heating and hot water operations and response including increased staffing, roving teams, mobile boilers, planned preventative maintenance and a 24-hour heat desk. Deteriorating infrastructure as a result of ongoing disinvestment is still a critical issue, but NYCHA has taken and will continue to take any available actions to address service outages.”