Who’s Running This City?

With Tuesday’s bombshell report on the Housing Authority, it’s fair to ask: Is anybody in charge at City Hall? The city Department of Investigation report accuses NYCHA of failing to conduct required lead-paint inspections — and then lying about it to federal officials. Those inspections are meant to see that young kids aren’t at risk for lead poisoning.

Yet not only were the inspections not done, and kids’ health jeopardized, but officials then filed fraudulent statements to the feds. Can you spell c-o-v-e-r-u-p?

“DOI’s investigation found that NYCHA failed to do critical lead-safety inspections and then falsely certified that they were meeting these legal requirements,” said DOI Commissioner Mark Peters. And this was “the fourth time in two years that DOI has found NYCHA to be careless when it comes to tenant safety.”

Nor was this a mere oversight: Top officials, including agency boss Shola Olatoye, were specifically “made aware” that NYCHA was out of compliance, DOI says. Yet they nonetheless submitted “certifications” claiming inspections were done.

Now Peters & Co. want a monitor to protect some 55,000 apartments.

Where has Mayor de Blasio been during all this — pretending to be “transformative”? Clearly he needs to be picking better people. And keeping them in line.

After all, NYCHA is but the latest in a long list of abysmally failing agencies under de Blasio, including many whose bosses had to step down: Homeless Services Commissioner Gilbert Taylor; Citywide Administrative Services chief Stacey Cumberbatch; Administration for Children’s Services head Gladys Carrión; Correction Department boss Joseph Ponte.

Let’s see how long de Blasio stands by his NYCHA boss. Yet whatever he does, this newest disaster just further stains his reign of error.

In May, after Ponte became the latest to be forced out, we asked a prescient question: “Which agency will next stand revealed as horribly mismanaged — the Housing Authority?”

Sometimes we just hate to be proved right.