A late night board meeting on Thursday ended with the immediate resignations of the president and director of Praxis, a nonprofit AIDS housing group under investigation for questionable spending practices.
Bloomberg’s proposed budget cuts could mean dirtier homeless shelters with fewer services and new challenges for foster parents and teens.
While social service providers fear the worst after last week’s budget announcement, advocates for elderly immigrants are scratching their heads over some funding gone missing from last year’s budget.
There have been 212 reports of attacks on homeless people around the country since 1999, including 123 murders.
States that have tried similar versions of Pataki’s Medicaid prescription drug reforms have had trouble monitoring them.
Councilmember Gale Brewer introduced legislation seeking to beef up enforcement of the city’s housing code.
States no longer welcome the once-loved “April surprise” of tax time.
Operating costs for owners of rent stabilized apartments rose 16.9 percent between April 2002 and this month.
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