HUD’s NSPIRE Inspections: NYCHA Sites Scheduled This Month
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is conducting random inspections of NYCHA apartments and buildings under a recently improved model that aims to reduce health and safety hazards.
The National Standards for the Physical Inspection of Real Estate (NSPIRE) replaces the former Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS) inspections – the first significant overhaul of inspection standards by HUD in over 20 years.
“NSPIRE prioritizes the condition of residents’ homes and areas that most impact their quality of life,” noted Ester Tomicic-Hines, NYCHA’s Vice President of Property Management Operations – HUD Inspections. “The NSPIRE standards emphasize health and safety issues inside apartments and buildings.”
NSPIRE focuses on eight critical health and safety areas, including carbon monoxide, fire safety, habitability, infestation, lead-based paint, mold, structural integrity, and water safety. HUD inspectors, who will be accompanied by NYCHA staff, will examine apartments and buildings (the outside and inside of buildings, including common areas).
NSPIRE will increase the objectivity, accuracy, and consistency of inspections across the Authority. The goal of NSPIRE inspections is to help NYCHA better assess the true physical condition of apartments, while promoting better living conditions for residents.
After launching at NYCHA in mid January 2024, NSPIRE inspections will be taking place at developments across the city on weekdays each month. As required by HUD, residents are asked to be prepared to provide apartment access for a random NSPIRE inspection.
NYCHA developments scheduled for NSPIRE inspections in July 2025 include:
(all inspections will take place between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.)
- Lower East Side II: July 1
- Rutgers Houses: July 2-3
- Mott Haven Houses: July 2
- Garvey Houses (Group A): July 7-9
- Sotomayor Houses: July 10-11
- FHA Repossessed Houses: July 14-16
- Jefferson Houses: July 15-16
- Dyckman Houses: July 16-17
- East River Houses: July 17-18
- Vladeck Houses: July 21-24
- Washington and Lexington Houses: July 21-22
- Mill Brook Houses and Mill Brook Extension: July 21-22
- Baruch Houses: July 23-24
- Polo Grounds Towers: July 24-25
- King Towers: July 25, 28
- Queensbridge South Houses: July 28-31
- Throggs Neck Houses: July 29-30
- Ocean Bay Apartments (Oceanside): July 30-31
- Lincoln Houses: July 31
- Morris I and II Houses: July 31
June 2025 inspections
- Patterson Houses
- Parkside and Gun Hill Houses
- Taft Rehabs
- Mitchel Houses
- Lower East Side II
If you are notified by the property management office that HUD inspectors will visit your apartment, you or another adult must be home for the inspection, or you must make arrangements to allow the inspectors into your apartment.
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