Look Up Your Building’s CGI Audit on this Interactive Map

How To Use This Map

Tenants who live in Project‑Based Section 8 Rental Assistance (PBRA) buildings in NYC can review their buildings audits on this interactive map.

You can scroll to find your building address on the left or zoom in on the map on the right to find building’s blue dot and click.

How To Use Audit Data

Tenants

• Investigate Your Building: You can search for your development and read records of past audits conducted by your landlord. You can use this information to learn more about your landlord’s past performance. 
• Investigate Your Property Management Company: The corporation hired to manage your building may be responsible for managing other buildings in your neighborhood or around New York City. Search your property manager’s name in the database to learn about their performance in other buildings, and discover which other tenants in your neighborhood may share your experiences. 
• Share Information with your Tenant Association: Where audits reveal misconduct, disinvestment, or general incompetence by property managers, organized tenant associations can use these records in their complaints to the Owners of their developments, HUD or the City, to support their demands for better conditions, more funding or investment in their buildings. 

Advocates 

• Pattern and Practice: Attorneys and tenant organizers can use this data to identify patterns of misconduct that may span across common owners or property managers, which can support or direct future legal and organizing strategies. 

Know Your PBRA Rights

Below is a list of basic information every tenant living in a PBRA building should know:

• Your rent should be 30% of your adjusted income.
• Recertification: You must receive proper, timely recertification notices.
• Privacy + files: Property managers must protect your information and handle your file correctly.
• Evictions: Notices must follow federal rules. If you’re a survivor of violence, VAWA protections apply (see forms HUD‑5380 & HUD‑5382)
•  Tip: Keep copies of all notices, recertification paperwork, and written requests you submit. Document dates and who you spoke with.

Learn more about LSNYC’s Investigation into the mismanagement of PBRA buildings.

Legal Services NYC submitted Freedom of Information Act requests for CGI’s audit data from 2015 to 2022 and analyzed nearly 1,400 audits spanning 421 New York City developments.

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