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Public Housing Community Fund Building a stronger, more equitable New York City by investing in public housing communities.

The Fund for Public Housing creates and leverages resources and relationships to enhance the opportunities and quality of life for New York City Housing Authority residents while uplifting the importance of public housing to our city. Through public-private partnership, the Fund for Public Housing amplifies and supports NYCHA’s critical mission to provide quality housing for New Yorkers that is sustainable, inclusive, and safe, while fostering opportunities for economic mobility.

In partnership with Open House New York, NYCHA, and Bloomberg Connects, we invite New Yorkers to experience public art s...
10/06/2026

In partnership with Open House New York, NYCHA, and Bloomberg Connects, we invite New Yorkers to experience public art shaped by residents, artists, and the communities that call these places home.

Across four tour stops, visitors will experience:

Slide 1: Revolving Voices at Astoria Houses by Tamra Cosby and The Urban Conga
Slide 2: Exodus & Dance (restored) at Kingsborough Houses by Richmond Barthé
Slide 3: Harborview Terrace Houses Open Space by Grain Collective
Slide 4: The Home That Inspired the World by 5thvisionart an Tats Cru
Slide 5: Migration (Heritage Walk) by Creative Urban Alchemy, Jerome Haferd Studio, and 618 Design

Each project tells a different story, from preserving generations of community memory to celebrating cultural legacy and creating new spaces for expression, connection, and belonging.

Join us for and see public housing through a different lens.

✨Click the link in our bio to register and for more details.

Photos by Kemi Karim & Tameek Williams

10/01/2026

The Public Housing Community Fund is proud to announce we have been selected by NYCEDC to administer the CruiseNYC Brooklyn Cruise Terminal Community Fund!

The Fund is here, and Red Hook decides where the money goes. Every cruise passenger sailing from the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal contributes $1 to a fund for Red Hook. Now it's up to the community to decide what it builds.

🎨 Our first call is Red Hook Futures, an art competition open to artists under 18 and 18 and over. Submissions are open now through October 23, 2026. Prizes include gift cards and a Next Generation Award, and ten finalists will receive Certificates of Recognition from Council Member Alexa Avilés's office.

💡 Share an idea: bctfund.nyc/ideas
🗳️ Join the Oversight Committee (Red Hook residents): bctfund.nyc/committee
🖼️ Enter Red Hook Futures: bctfund.nyc/art

Link in bio. Need help in another language? Call (212) 210-2369.

The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal Community Fund is administered by the Public Housing Community Fund on behalf of the New York City Economic Development Corporation.

09/26/2026

🎨 Help us bring a new community mural to life at Whitman Houses!

Join the Public Housing Community Fund, Artolution, NYCHA, the United Nations Population Fund, and community partners for three afternoons of painting, creativity, and connection at the Whitman Houses handball court in Brooklyn.

No artistic experience is needed — just grab a brush and be part of creating something beautiful for the community.

📅 Monday, September 28 – Wednesday, September 30
⏰ 3:00–7:00 PM each day
📍 Handball Court, 68 Cumberland Walk, Brooklyn, NY 11205

All ages are welcome, and refreshments will be provided.

This project is about more than a mural — it’s about residents coming together, sharing their creativity, and helping shape the spaces they call home.

We hope to see you there! 🎨🖌️

Exciting news for the next chapter of Green Space Connections! 🌳🌱The Public Housing Community Fund is thrilled to welcom...
09/24/2026

Exciting news for the next chapter of Green Space Connections! 🌳🌱

The Public Housing Community Fund is thrilled to welcome ONE Architecture & Urbanism and Creative Urban Alchemy as our resiliency planning partners for Green Space Connections 3.0.

With support from the Helmsley Charitable Trust, this next phase will bring resident-led planning and climate-resilient green space improvements to Vladeck Houses, Wagner Houses, Ravenswood Houses, and Richmond Terrace Houses — reaching more than 10,000 NYCHA residents.

At the heart of this work is a simple idea: residents should help shape the spaces where they live. Through community engagement, participatory design, and long-term stewardship, we’re working together to create greener, safer, healthier, and more resilient NYCHA communities across New York City.

Read more at https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/public-housing-community-fund-names-partners-for-green-space-resiliency-planning/.

We’re excited to get to work. 💚

🎨 Something special is coming to Whitman Houses!PHCF is proud to partner with Artolution, NYCHA, and the Whitman Houses ...
09/16/2026

🎨 Something special is coming to Whitman Houses!

PHCF is proud to partner with Artolution, NYCHA, and the Whitman Houses Residents Association to bring a new community-led to the Whitman Houses campus in Brooklyn.

Last night, residents and partners came together for an artmaking workshop to share ideas, create, and help shape the design of the mural that will come to life later this month.

Led by Dr. Max Frieder, Ed.D, this is public art created with the community, for the community, transforming shared space through creativity, collaboration, and imagination.

Stay tuned for details on upcoming Community Paint Days and opportunities to help bring the mural to life! 🎨🖌️

🎉 We’re thrilled to celebrate Regina Carter — a three-time Public Housing Community Fund Climate Action Grant winner — o...
09/15/2026

🎉 We’re thrilled to celebrate Regina Carter — a three-time Public Housing Community Fund Climate Action Grant winner — on being named a 2026 David Prize winner!

Regina is turning one New Yorker’s discarded furniture into another New Yorker’s home. Through Repurposed Life, she’s kept more than half a million pounds of furniture and other items out of the waste stream and helped more than 5,000 families since 2024.

We’ve been proud to support Regina’s work through our Climate Action Grants and partner with her to bring free furniture directly to NYCHA communities.

Now, The David Prize is investing $200,000 in her big idea and what comes next.

Resident-led. Climate-smart. New York strong. ♻️🏠💚

Congratulations, Regina! We’re proud to be part of your journey.

📣 REVOLVING VOICES: Astoria Houses, in residents’ own words.From the beginning, From Roots to Arts was designed to ensur...
09/01/2026

📣 REVOLVING VOICES: Astoria Houses, in residents’ own words.

From the beginning, From Roots to Arts was designed to ensure that public art in public housing doesn’t simply arrive in a community but grows from it.

Working alongside artist Tamra Cosby and The Urban Conga, Astoria Houses residents helped shape Revolving Voices through photography, storytelling, creative-building activities, conversations, and community voting. Residents reflected on the past, present, and future of Astoria Houses and shared their own memories and experiences of the place they call home.

Tamra continued those conversations throughout her residency, transforming what she heard into the written work incorporated directly into the finished sculptures, including the powerful reminder that “voices echo through time.”

The result is more than a new public artwork. It is a platform for community voice, memory and possibility, created with Astoria Houses residents and rooted in the stories already living there.

From Roots to Arts connects local artists with NYCHA residents through community-based artist residencies, creating new ways for residents and artists to tell stories together and redefine what art in public housing can look like. The program is generously funded by the Mellon Foundation, Humanities in Place program.

From Roots to Arts is part of Connected Communities, advancing participatory planning and design to strengthen both the physical and social connections between residents and their communities.

📸 Photo Credit: Tameek Williams

08/31/2026

When residents have the power to shape their community, ideas become places, and conversations become change. 🌿💚

At Roosevelt Houses, residents aren’t just being asked what they want, they’re helping design it.

Through Green Space Connections, resident ideas, priorities, and lived experience shaped the future of the open spaces they use every day. That’s what participatory design should look like: community voices leading to real, visible change.

Thank you to our design partners, Center for Justice Innovation, and Roosevelt Houses residents for helping bring the community’s vision to life.

📍 Roosevelt Houses, Brooklyn
🌱 Green Space Connections

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🌿✨ Green Space Connections 3.0 is here!We’re hitting the ground running across all four sites, joining Family Days, meet...
08/29/2026

🌿✨ Green Space Connections 3.0 is here!

We’re hitting the ground running across all four sites, joining Family Days, meeting residents, sharing what’s coming, and getting excited about what we can build together.

And this is only the beginning. 💚

Participatory design kicks off in September, giving residents a real voice in shaping the future of these spaces.

More events, more ways to get involved, and more updates are coming soon. Follow along! 🌱

08/24/2026

Looking back at the opening of a space built for learning, connection, and opportunity at Harborview Terrace Houses. 💙

From the first day, the goal was simple: create new pathways and possibilities for NYCHA residents, and build something that can grow for years to come.

The 53,000-square-foot transformation at Harborview was brought to life through the love and dedication of the community, our team, the designers at Grain, the contractors at CLS, and the generous support of our funding partner, the Pershing Square Foundation.

Let’s bring more JOY to NYCHA campuses across the city.

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