Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday attacked the new deal between the city and the federal government to fix the city’s troubled public housing agency — denouncing it as a “face-saving decision” for the feds.
“I’m disappointed with what the HUD secretary did. It was a political decision, not a legal decision,” the governor said on “The Capitol Pressroom” radio show in Albany.
“They didn’t put more money on the table … It was a political, face-saving decision.”
Cuomo’s comments come a day after Mayor Bill de Blasio praised the settlement — which calls for a federal monitor to oversee NYCHA in an effort to fix its squalid housing stock — as a “very strong path forward.”
The deal doesn’t increase the $2.2 billion over 10 years that de Blasio previously pledged to repair the agency’s buildings — a far cry from the $38.4 billion that NYCHA says it needs.
“He should have used his constitutional obligation … to fund NYCHA,” said Cuomo, who was the HUD secretary under President Bill Clinton.



