Bronx
FEDS PLUCK AN UNKNOWN TO MANAGE TROUBLED HOMES
Matt Pacenza |
The feds have hired a new contractor to manage the city’s most troubled public housing developments — and the company’s lack of experience and sketchy history are raising questions.
Government
PRAXIS CROWNS KING
Geoffrey Gray |
Helping an agency recover from a housing finance scandal is nothing new for Charlie King, a former official at the Department of Housing and Urban Development — so Praxis has hired him to lead it through its own hard times.
Government
FEAR OF ACCESS
William Wichert |
A few dozen City Council members are pushing legislation to protect New Yorkers’ privacy when they seek city services — but Mayor Bloomberg warns the bill violates federal law.
Rudy Giuliani
PILOT GROUNDED
K. Wright |
A state court has officially declared the Council’s 2000 effort to reshape the city’s welfare-to-work program invalid.
Women
MOTHER'S DAY MAKEOVER
K. Wright |
One of the nation’s leading predatory lenders got some help from ACS this weekend in its public image makeover campaign.
Homelessness
BANK DEPOSIT
K. Wright |
Four banks have agreed to put up 80 percent of a $200 million housing development fund.
STATE SPENDING
K. Wright |
The charge that states created thier own problems by letting spending skyrocket doesn’t square with the numbers, a new report argues.
Michael Bloomberg
LOW EXPECTATIONS
K. Wright |
The Independent Budget Office’s forecast of the coming years sees deficits climbing and more jobs leaving town.
City Hall
INTENSIFYING CONFLICT
K. Wright |
Relations between the mayor’s office and AIDS community advocates are souring fast over his reform agenda.
Michael Bloomberg
HIRE AND SAVE
K. Wright |
DC 37’s suggestions for the city budget crisis focus on hiring, whether than cutting back, staff.
