The Oceanhill-Brownsville Tenants Association holds the title to thousands of low-income apartment units in Brooklyn, but after years of working with the city, the nonprofit is getting out of the housing management game.
The bookkeeper for many NYC nonprofits is also protester who gives his IRS payments to good causes to make his point. It could land him in jail.
Friends mourn the loss of one of the pioneers of urban homesteading.
The Administration of Children Services change to geographic representation might shut out special need clients.
Pregnant immigrants are shunning prenatal care for fear of deportation. What are they afraid of?
A Park Slope battered women’s shelter is reaching out to two very different groups of women: lesbians and Arab Americans.
Since the late 1970s, the city’s Tenant Interim Lease program has been helping low-income renters become apartment owners. As TIL celebrates its 20th anniversary, advocates are fighting charges that the program is a waste of tax dollars.
One 28-unit building has become a battleground for a group of upper Manhattan power brokers. And then there’s Rosie O’Donnell’s brother.
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