June 16, 2003 : City Limits

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: FROM RENT REGS TO THE ROCK

Tenant laws, brownfields, Rockefeller laws and child welfare reform vie for Albany approval.

Seeking to keep housing homeless families in a Brooklyn complex, the Department of Homeless Services fights back against tenants’ suit.

The Supreme Court says public housing authorities can bar unwanted visitors from public streets inside their complexes.

Governor Pataki has loosened his grip on $25 million in TANF money slated for summer youth jobs programs.

More than 14 million households spend over half of their income on housing, a new Joint Center of Housing Studies report says.

Fewer than 2,000 of the estimated 20,000 mothers under 21-years-old who haven’t finished high school are accessing city aid.

Nineteen out of 29 bank branches in a recent survey failed to promote the affordable “basic banking” accounts mandated by state law.

Local AmeriCorps grantees this week joined a frantic national campaign to prevent millions of dollars in funding cuts for the program.

The 894 tenants of Phipps Plaza West apartments are suing their landlord to stop him from buying out of the Mitchell-Lama program.