Bronx
BUILDING BUCKS
C. Feldman |
City announces recipients of Low Income Housing Tax Credit awards. Who’s building what–and where?
Gifford Miller
GREENING THE APPLE
C. Feldman |
City Council passes landmark legislation to make city buildings environmentally sound.
BREATH OF FRESH AIR
C. Feldman |
Lower Washington Heights Neighborhood Association makes peace with a former foe: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
EAST VILLAGE SHOWDOWN
C. Feldman |
Neighborhood residents are fighting a developer’s plan to put a dorm in the building that once housed P.S. 64. But will the Board of Standards and Appeals back them up?
Homelessness
HOMELESS PLAN APPROVED
C. Feldman |
State Supreme Court grants city permission to change the way it handles families reapplying for shelter. No more housing on demand.
Welfare
WELFARE WIN
C. Feldman |
Last year, the state reduced public assistance for families with a member on SSI. Now a state court has reversed the change.
NEW LEASE ON LIFE
C. Feldman |
Good news for Section 8 tenants: New York Supreme Court rules that landlords can’t stop accepting vouchers when leases expire.
Community Service Society of New York
RENT WOES
C. Feldman |
Rent burden grows fastest for city’s poor.
Homelessness
ONE CITY/ONE COMMUNITY
C. Feldman |
New program will streamline social service bureaucracy in Bed-Stuy.
