To 2,000 Brooklyn tenants, the federal government’s low-income housing tax-shelters have created a slumlord subsidy. After 25 years of living with rats, leaky roofs and gun battles, the residents finally found a friend in Washington: the anti-Mafia RICO law.
This summer, a college intern agreed to help a welfare recipient handle a couple of problems. Their travails have lessons to teach all of us about welfare reform. Excerpts from a journal.
The Hatian community has proven repeatedly it can deliver huge numbers of people to the streets.
For more than five years now, water and sewer costs have been strangling low-income housing. Local pols have left tenants awash in unmet promises.
What’s all this hugging, grinning and camera-mugging in East New York? Not much.
A provocative new study of right-wing philanthropies reveals an effective strategy for changing public opinion. But few mainstream foundations want in on the action.
This was supposed to be the Year of the Bronx. Instead it was the year that the revved-up Bronx political machine led by Roberto Ramirez crashed–after backing the only council incumbent feckless enough to lose his seat. Just when it seemed peace had broken out in the South Bronx, total war rages anew.
Activist Marie Runyon never backs down from a fight. That can be a problem when the opponents are your own board members.
A book review of Wall Street by Doug Henwood, Verso Books, 1997, 372 pages, $25.
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