Housing and Homelessness
REINING IN THE ZONING BOARD
Elizabeth Cady Brown |
Two different tracks emerge for reforming the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals.
“SMALL” BANKS PLAN DRAWS ADVOCATES’ IRE
Elizabeth Cady Brown |
Proposed changes to the Community Reinvestment Act could loosen redlining regulations.
Bronx
CREDIT UNIONS GET A BOOST FROM ALBANY
Elizabeth Cady Brown |
Struggling to stay afloat, credit unions may soon be able to get government incentives once reserved for banks.
Lower East Side
The Big Idea: Factory Town
Elizabeth Cady Brown |
Real estate speculation threatens to squeeze successful manufacturing businesses out of New York City. Now the City Council considers a way to help everyone win: charging housing developers who build on industrial turf a fee to help salvage jobs
City Hall
CLOUDY FORECAST
Elizabeth Cady Brown |
How big is next year’s budget? Depends whom you ask.
Homelessness
DHS SENDS S.O.S. TO NONPROFITS
Elizabeth Cady Brown |
City’s move to farm out key services may be a mixed blessing for community-based organizations.
Michael Bloomberg
CASH ADVANCE
Elizabeth Cady Brown |
City tests out plan to help small social service contractors get paid more quickly.
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.
Welfare
THE HANDS THAT FEEDS
Elizabeth Cady Brown |
A new report finds food stamps are still not being used by a high percentage of the people
who are eligible.
