Rents are rising, wages declining, and the pols in Albany are preparing to slice and dice the city’s number-one housing subsidy: welfare. As activists battle to preserve rent stabilization, even greater threats to low-income tenants lurk just around the corner.
A Harlem group is hoping to ensure that people who are locked up aren’t unfairly locked out of their voting rights.
The politicians want welfare moms to pull themselves out of dependency. But in the fall of 1995, with Congress crafting an end to the nation’s guaranteed welfare benefits, Philadelphia activist Cheri Honkala and an organized band of homeless mothers took a more creative approach to “self-help” than the politicians ever had in mind.
Scheduled cuts in Food Stamps and disability benefits have given legal immigrants good reason to panic.
A church group leading Harlem’s Bradhurst redevelopment project is trying to convince the city of the perils of Pathmark. Superstore supporters charge the group being power hungry at the expense of cheap food.
A book review of Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World, by Ellis Cose, HarperCollins, 1997, 260 pp., $24.
New York City school’s chief Rudy Crew apparently didn’t enjoy being called in for a parent-chancellor conference last month.
The state’s massive effort to turn food stamps and welfare checks into ATM-type debit cards could result in unforeseen dangers for low-income New Yorkers, advocates charge.