While the Bloomberg administration awaits a verdict on whether it can temporarily ban from the shelter system homeless families who fail to actively seek permanent housing, the mayor’s attorneys last week made a new request of the courts: permission to sanction homeless single adults, too.
After making news last week for evicting low-income tenants and filling their apartments with homeless families–for a nice fee from the city–a Brooklyn developer has taken the feds to court to try to halt and take over an affordable housing project in Bed-Stuy.
City and state elected officials have threatened to withhold millions of dollars from the Brooklyn Academy of Music Local Development Corporation if it does not include more of the community’s demands in its plan for a cultural district.
The Independent Budget Office looks at which taxes offer the most hope in the dark days ahead.
More than half of the Council districts have non-white majorities in the Districting Commission’s first draft of a new political map.
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