To the relief of the AIDS community, Mayor Bloomberg agreed not to contract out AIDS services as part of a preliminary budget deal with the Council last week-but his plan to shuffle around oversight of those services continues to keep advocates on edge.
Concerned that a city proposal to penalize homeless adults who do not follow shelter rules will put more people on the street, dozens of City Council members are pushing the Bloomberg administration to instead work with the Coalition for the Homeless to create a panel that would oversee shelter operations.
The company that handles donations made through Network for Good suddenly went out of business Monday.
Albany has left 56,000 businesses and families that get property insurance through the state in the lurch.
Asian Americans for Equality has launched a $1.5 million affordable housing development fund.
Former state Senator Israel Ruiz, Jr. is trying again for the 14th District City Council seat in the Bronx.
The Bush administration’s advisors on HOPE VI’s future include lots of industry, an anti-public housing zealot and no tenants.
City Project is looking for money–for both the city’s budget gap and the 20-year-old watchdog group’s own cash flow problems.
Police have begun arresting day laborers that gather by the hundreds along Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside.
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