As the city’s shelter population grows, a group of advocates for the homeless last week called on the governor and mayor to make room in next year’s budget for cash to build thousands of new supportive apartments for homeless New Yorkers with mental illness.
The longtime leaders of two of the city’s major community development groups are moving on, each leaving behind a legacy of affordable housing and retail development in Harlem and Brooklyn.
The Rent Guidelines Board will go into its first vote of the season on Tuesday short one of two tenant representatives, but the mayor’s office is considering filling the open spot with a housing attorney who was known for ruffling Giuliani’s feathers in the late 1990s, and could shift the outcome of the final guidelines vote in June.
While some of the city’s major unions already supporting Governor Pataki for re-election, other leading members of the Working Families Party are split between the two Democratic hopefuls for the state’s top seat, leaving the labor-based political party with what could be the toughest endorsement decision of its young career.
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