The city on Friday asked a panel of state appellate court judges to let the Department of Homeless Services penalize single adults who do not follow certain shelter system rules — and promised to have a system in place to ensure that clients who are too ill to follow those rules are not penalized.
The Bloomberg administration is suing the City Council for a law the legislators say will curtail predatory lending, and the mayor argues will discourage banks from doing business in the five boroughs.
While budgets are tight, the city’s housing agency has managed in recent years to up its efforts to preserve the existing housing stock by making more emergency repairs and taking buildings out of the hands of derelict owners, according to a new report.
Two Brooklyn hospitals have agreed to provide beefed up langauge services following an attorney general’s office investigation.
Another transgender woman has filed bias charges against a city-funded housing services provider.
Both the state and city comptrollers are calling Mayor Bloomberg’s preliminary budget overly optimistic.
A coalition of budget watchdogs and service groups says if the city cuts waste and closes corporate tax loopholes it’ll avoid service cuts.
Day care workers want $276 million in federal funds they say the city diverted into other agencies restored.
With Medcaid a newly hot topic, a slew of reports examining New York’s health coverage turned up this week.
Black and Latino pols join the Working Families Party in telling the mayor to dump his nonpartisan elections proposal.
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