Latino
The Big Idea: Up in Arms
Kai Wright |
High school activists are fighting military recruitment, even though an armed services job could be their peers’ best shot at success.
Latino
City Lit: Striking Differences
Philip Kay |
The Strike that Changed New York: Blacks, Whites and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis, by Jerald E. Podair
Latino
Making Change: A House of Our Own
Kenyon Farrow |
Now that the West Village showed them the door, queer youth of color are turning to drag houses for community.
Center for an Urban Future
NYC Inc: Learning From Labor
David Jason Fischer |
Job trainers and their government funders should take a careful look at the most successful employment prep groups out there: unions.
Government
Housing: The Next Generation / Housing Next
Matt Pacenza |
What will Bloomberg’s ambitious housing plan mean for New York’s poor? For community development groups? For your neighborhood? The lowdown, in five parts.
Michael Bloomberg
Housing: The Next Generation / Power Builders
City Limits |
Who holds the keys to keeping the mayor’s new housing affordable.
Housing: The Next Generation / Green and Lean
Alex Ulam |
A Harlem entrepreneur proves that housing can be high quality, environmentally friendly–and affordable.
Recycling
Housing: The Next Generation / Material World
Hillary Rosner |
A California dreamer is determined to show New Yorkers that reusing building materials will work.
Housing: The Next Generation / Energizing Money
William Wichert |
Catching up on how to keep energy costs down
Michael Bloomberg
Shelter Games
Geoffrey Gray |
Secret ventures, cooked books and bail money for gang members–it’s all part of the seamy saga of a city homeless shelter nonprofit now under federal scrutiny.
