Bronx
Dream Off?
Matt Pacenza |
For six years, residents of the Bronx’s Beekman Houses got the royal runaround on a visionary plan to control their own homes. With HUD’s top brass departing, is Beekman’s dream about to be deferred for good?
For six years, residents of the Bronx’s Beekman Houses got the royal runaround on a visionary plan to control their own homes. With HUD’s top brass departing, is Beekman’s dream about to be deferred for good?
Like all hospitals and clinics that treat the poor, Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center is being walloped by changes in Medicaid. Its doctors pray that a medical makeover can get them out of intensive care.
High-tech hotshots made a bundle during the boom, and now they’re giving it away. But not for free: As venture philanthropy trickles through the nonprofit world, the MBA mentality could change the definition of social change.
A book review of How Women Saved the City, by Daphne Spain, University of Minnesota Press, 288 pages, $34.95.