Housing and Homelessness
MEET SHAUN DONOVAN: HPD’S OUTSIDER COMMISH
Cassi Feldman |
City’s housing agency welcomes former HUD official.
Michael Bloomberg
WORK IT!
Karah Woodward |
The city’s Department of Youth and Community Development issues a new plan for summer youth jobs.
OPEN TO INTERPRETATION
E. Cady Brown |
As public advocates and political operatives ramp up for the 2004 presidential race, a fierce debate continues to rage at the Federal Elections Commission (FEC).
Latino
NO (WHITE) CHILD LEFT BEHIND
E. Cady Brown |
According to a new study, only half of all black, Hispanic and Native American teenagers in the United States will graduate from high school.
MENTALLY ILL INMATES STILL STRUGGLING
C. Lagorio |
Sixteen months after the Brad H. settlement mandated better care, Rikers Island monitors report that compliance is still uneven at best.
Gifford Miller
The Big Idea: Home Remedy
Bob Lederer |
New York’s Medicaid program is breaking the state budget, and rising costs of prescription drugs are a major reason why. But we may have the power to buy our way out of the crisis.
Staten Island
Psychiatric Wards
Cassi Feldman |
Unlicensed psychiatric homes operate in the far-out corners of the city and below the radar of the state agencies charged to regulate them. Some are dirty and dangerous, others exemplary–and no one knows where else their residents can go.
Latino
City Lit: Working our Nerves
Debbie Nathan |
The Puerto Rican Syndrome, by Patricia Gherovici.
Lower East Side
Betting on a Green Building Boom
Elizabeth Cady Brown |
New York is poised to host a wave of environmentally sound construction. But if you want a blueprint, don’t look to the city’s new building code–industry activists are working to spark a marketplace revolution.
