Individual Development Accounts were the hot antipoverty idea of the 1990s, and tens of thousands of striving Americans now watch their money get matched and grow. Does it matter that most of them weren’t poor to begin with?
While Washington attacks vouchers aiding poor
tenants, New York City is launching an ambitious–and expensive–new housing subsidy of its own.
In recent years, New York City has lost 1 in 10 of its Puerto Ricans. Where are they going? In Allentown, Pennsylvania, just ask the customers at the local C-Town.
City Council members call for environmentally sound public buildings.
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