Citywide
Section 8 Is Not Enoug
Erin Drasler |
Getting a housing voucher from the city is tough. Finding landlords willing to accept them is an even bigger struggle.
FDNY
AND THEN THERE WERE NINE: WHAT PRICE HOUSING?:
Erin Drasler |
The nonprofit Fifth Avenue Committee reigns in plans for affordable housing in Red Hook after some community leaders ask for a more mixed bag.
Housing and Homelessness
BITTERSWEET VICTORY
Erin Drasler |
A few years after successfully ridding their building of their negligent landlord, many residents of the federally-subsidized Medgar Evers houses may soon be forced to leave their homes themselves, as an administrative requirement at HUD leaves them to choose between taking on a huge rent hike or the street.
Citywide
De-Vending Fulton Street
Erin Drasler |
The city will soon take the “street” out of the vendors who line Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
TENANTS TO HUD: ARE YOU ON DRUGS?
Erin Drasler |
As members of Congress debate the merits of President Bush’s proposed housing budget, public housing tenants fear a slash to a multi-million dollar program meant to cut drug use could mean trouble for their young neighbors.
Manhattan
IT'S CHEAPER THAN A HOTEL ROOM: CITY FINED OVER AIDS HOUSING
Erin Drasler |
State Supreme Court Judge Emily Goodman berated the Giuliani Administration last week for neglecting to provide housing to homeless people with AIDS the day they request it, and stuck the city with thousands of dollars in fines.
PRICE NO BARGAIN FOR TENANTS
Erin Drasler |
Residents of the Willard J. Price houses in Brooklyn cheered when the feds kicked out the negligent owner of their buildings, but nearly a year and a half later, they are still waiting for a reprieve from deplorable living conditions.
HARLEM REVISITED? CITY GETS READY TO DE-VEND FULTON STREET
Erin Drasler |
As part of a campaign to spruce up a Brooklyn shopping strip, the area’s sidewalk salesmen will soon be corralled to a nearby lot, and some fear business will suffer.
The Disabled
FOLLOW THE LEAD
Erin Drasler |
In a push to scrutinize New York’s lead abatement programs, an advocacy group is suing the state for details.
