Father Louis Gigante’s takeover of the South Bronx’s Murphy Consolidated housing project was the first step in the city’s privatization of public housing management. But tenants say they’re trapped in…
Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer is a public champion of tenants’ rights, but his bid to become New York’s first Puerto Rican mayor is being bolstered by real estate money.
A class-action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of thousands of women who are forced to tell abusive partners their whereabouts in order to qualify for public housing.