Michael Bloomberg
Trust a Bust for New York
Jill Grossman |
Affordable housing moves ahead–but stalls in New York.
Manhattan
Can We Can Go On?
Jill Grossman |
Just as the city’s new recycling laws start to work against them, some homeless New Yorkers may soon lose another resource: We Can, a unique nonprofit recycling depot in Hell’s Kitchen, is slated to lose its home this week as the city makes way for a mixed-income housing development
Bronx
Rumble in the Bronx Over Legal Services
Jill Grossman |
Under orders from Washington, Legal Services of New York is moving to take more control of its neighborhood law offices, but one of those offices, in the Bronx, refuses to play along and is taking its main funder to court to stop it.
Michael Bloomberg
Affordable Housing Trust a Bust for New York
Jill Grossman |
Congress took a step toward boosting state and local affordable housing trust funds last week, but for now New York won’t get a cent.
Banana Kelly U-Turn
Jill Grossman |
City tells South Bronx organizing Goliath to pay up, or get out.
Housing and Homelessness
This Land Is Whose Land? Charas Versus Housing
Jill Grossman |
Six months after its new landlord put CHARAS out on the street, the East Village community center has its sights on another property… but so does the Housing Authority.
Bronx
City Calls Group Second Banana
Jill Grossman |
A few weeks after Banana Kelly tried to regain control of its long troubled buildings, the city has given the infamous Bronx-based community group a month to pay off its debt, or face losing its properties.
Bronx
Banana Kelly Takes a U-Turn in the Bronx
Jill Grossman |
A community development group with a troubled past is trying to get some of its buildings back, delaying much-needed repairs and leaving hundreds of tenants languishing in their dilapidated apartments.
Bronx
Doe Fund Ready to Run New Brooklyn Shelter
Jill Grossman |
The homeless services group known for putting its clients to work plans to begin construction on a controversial shelter in Williamsburg immediately, putting the city one giant step closer to closing its central men’s shelter in Manhattan.
Manhattan
He’s Back, Too?
Jill Grossman |
The Rent Guidelines Board will go into its first vote of the season on Tuesday short one of two tenant representatives, but the mayor’s office is considering filling the open spot with a housing attorney who was known for ruffling Giuliani’s feathers in the late 1990s, and could shift the outcome of the final guidelines vote in June.
