The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development is examining the finances of a nonprofit housing and social services provider a week after City Limits reported on the questionable spending habits of the group’s directors.
Already facing big competition for a small number of publicly-funded summer jobs, low-income teens’ prospects for employment when school lets out in June may be even worse than they thought — thanks to a miscalculation by the city Department of Employment.
HPD’s annual housing and vacancy study puts rental vacancy rates way below the mark needed to end rent control.
This week the House will likely pass its welfare reform reauthorization bill, featuring new work regs and a “superwaiver.”
The Council passed a bill broadening education options for people on welfare, setting up another veto fight.
The Citizen’s Committee for Children of New York has released an update of its tome of child well being data.
Comptroller says the city would actually save money if it started recycling plastic and glass again.
New York’s Medicaid system may promise better care for kids with severe mental disorders than it actually delivers.
As the House passed its TANF reauthorization bill, HHS released new data it says proves the sucess of welfare-to-work.
Ohio Rep. Bob Ney wants a federal anti-predatory lending law–one that both preempts and weakens those New York’s already got.
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