Bronx

BANANA KELLY GETS A NEW BUNCH

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Tenants in Banana Kelly’s apartments are cautiously optimistic that help is on the way, after the state attorney general removed the leaders of the embattled community development group and replaced them with some well-known Bronx officials and housing developers.

Homelessness

CITY TO COURT: LET US SANCTION HOMELESS ADULTS

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While the Bloomberg administration awaits a verdict on whether it can temporarily ban from the shelter system homeless families who fail to actively seek permanent housing, the mayor’s attorneys last week made a new request of the courts: permission to sanction homeless single adults, too.

Bronx

LEGAL SERVICES ASKS: MFY?

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A second local Legal Services office made moves to pull away from headquarters last week, leaving Legal Services of New York City with the prospect of cutting jobs and services, at least in the short-term, while it sets up a new office in Manhattan.

CITY ADAPS TO AIDS DEADLINE

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After contract delays and slow-starting programs, the city finds itself with five months to spend $15 million, or face losing it to the feds.í

Government

HOMELESS CHILDREN’S CRUSADE

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As a state Supreme Court judge deliberates the city’s request to temporarily take homeless children away from parents who take too long to find apartments, child welfare advocates brace themselves for a rise in foster care cases.

Homelessness

HOUSING BRAIN DRAIN

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As the city’s Department of Homeless Services struggles to house the record number of homeless families it sees each day, several of the agency’s managers and social workers plan to accept a generous retirement package that the city recently offered, leaving the remaining staff and advocates for the homeless wondering how the work will get done.