Still no fix plan set for NYCHA

Six months after reaching a deal to fix NYCHA, the city and the federal government Friday failed to present a united front to a federal judge unhappy with their progress in fixing the beleaguered agency.

Last month Manhattan Federal Judge William Pauley shot down the carefully crafted consent decree reached by the city and the feds in June, and requested all sides present a “joint statement” on how they intended to find a plan he would approve.

But when Pauley’s deadline arrived Friday, Mayor de Blasio, NYCHA and Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman informed the judge that they need more time to reach consensus on how to move forward.

The formerly collegial group admitted that it can’t yet agree on a roadmap that Pauley might find acceptable to adopt real reform that will improve the lives of 400,000 city public housing residents.

They asked that they be allowed to file an improved version of their plan Jan. 31 — the same day the Department of Housing and Urban Development expects NYCHA to submit detailed plans on how it will address the catalog of problems tenants face every day.

In a letter to NYCHA Interim Chairman Stanley Brezenoff Friday, HUD Secretary Ben Carson warned that the authority must produce a plan with explicit performance targets for cleaning up lead paint and toxic mold, addressing chronically busted elevators and boilers, and addressing vermin infestation.

He demanded “robust oversight” and milestones “for measuring meaningful progress toward remediation goals” — but said nothing about changing the agency’s management.

The filing made clear the schism in the agreement reached in June. If the deal collapses, the prosecutors can bring a civil case against NYCHA that could result in an embarrassing trial that would parade a litany of the authority’s longstanding cover-ups and lies on its failures to address issues such as lead paint and toxic mold.