Next week, the regional administrator for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Lynne Patton, is moving into New York City public housing, where she’ll spend a month, one week each with a different family.

Patton will stay in four developments that have experienced hot water and heat outages, starting with the Patterson Houses in the South Bronx. She plans to meet with residents and property maintenance teams and pass the information she gathers to a federal monitor, who will soon be appointed to oversee the housing authority. The monitor is being appointed as part of an agreement that the city and feds reached last week to overhaul the New York City Housing Authority.

Patton says it doesn’t concern her that some are dismissing the exercise as a publicity stunt.

“Quite frankly, I really don't care what people think,” she said in an interview with WNYC. “I know why I'm doing it. The residents know why I'm doing it.”

Patton said she expects to see immediate repairs being done in the developments she'll stay in.