On 9 April 2025, six New York City Housing Authority tenants and one Chelsea resident filed an updated Article 78 Petition, seeking a judicial review of Agency and City decisions to put all of the public housing stock in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan into privatisation, which would ultimately lead to their complete demolition.
The legal action, Weaver, et al., v. NYCHA, et al., is a refiling of a prior Article 78, which was dismissed without prejudice. The judge in the prior case issued a legal opinion that the issue was not yet ripe for review, though the prior petitioners disagreed. For lack of legal representation, we were unable to appeal the decision.
The updated refiling was filed pro se, and it included a City Charter § 1109 request for a preliminary judicial inquiry to examine why Agency and City officials appeared to give the RAD/PACT Landlord, a joint-venture including The Related Companies, an apparent exemption to the ULURP Process, which is a formal land use review procedure required when real estate development projects reach a certain scale or impact, when projects involve the disposition of City real property, or when projects involve public housing.
