NYCHA crisis

Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, called a settlement with federal prosecutors a "dramatic step" and a "turning point for our public housing system." The settlement came in response to a civil complaint that zeroed in on what it portrayed as the agency's indifference to the risk of lead paint poisoning children, saying, it "knows that there is lead paint within apartment units in roughly thirty percent of its developments, but has failed — and continues to fail — to protect its residents from that paint when it peels and crumbles."