Housing and Homelessness
SURVEY SAYS … A HOLIDAY REQUEST FOR YOUR OPINION:
City Limits |
Keeping to City Limits’ tradition of honoring Independence Day, we ask you, our readers, to freely express your thoughts on how we’re doing.
CLOSED FOR SUMMER
K. Wright |
Summer food aid programs for kids are among the services that didn’t make it through the budget wringer intact.
UNCHECKED HOPE
K. Wright |
HUD is keeping a poor watch over its HOPE VI contracts. A federal audit says only a third of the revitalizations scheduled since 1993 have been finished.
Economy
STABLE FOUNDATIONS?
J. Tozzi |
Foundations say a bill that would force them to make more charitable payouts will undermine longterm stability.
Gifford Miller
TRANSLATING SERVICES
K. Wright |
Thirty-six of 51 City Council members are urging the speaker to move on a bill forcing human services agencies to provide translation.
Bronx
COMMUNITY HEALTH
J. Tozzi |
The city plans to open community health offices in three neighborhoods with high rates of preventable diseases.
TOUGH LOVE FOR AMERICORPS
K. Wright |
A leading House appropriator intends to block a Senate bill providing emergency funding to stave off AmeriCorps cuts.
WASTING AWAY
J. Tozzi |
The city is failing to cash in on $62 million in federally funded, interest-free bonds to pay for school improvements.
