With an eye toward the next two years’ elections in New York, an unlikely coalition of big banks, real estate developers and advocates for the homeless have agreed on a proposal to put low- and middle-income housing development on the map.
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.
The field of candidates for at least one City Council race got a little thinner last week when Errol Louis decided to drop his second attempt for the Crown Heights seat in Brooklyn.
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