Kathleen McGowan, Author at City Limits

Taxed Shelter

An East Brooklyn housing powerhouse moves out of the business.

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Mar 1999

ByKathleen McGowan 4 minRead time

BED-STUY BRAWL PUTS CONTRACT OUT ON HOUSING GROUP

A proposed development to build supportive housing for AIDS patients in Bed-Stuy may be scuttled by political and personal animosity.

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Mar 1999

NATION'S POOREST WAIT (AND WAIT) FOR HOUSING HELP

More people than ever are in line for public housing in New York, but new rules may let middle-income tenants move to the top of the list.

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Mar 1999

ByKathleen McGowan 2 minRead time

Stall in the Family

Delays plague the city’s housing agency.

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Economy

COUNCIL, LAWYERS GANG UP ON CITY HOUSING PROGRAM

Tenants advocates are marshalling legal and legislative forces against a housing department program that moves city-owned properties into the hands of small landlords.

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Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

CLEAN-UP PROJECT

According to sources both inside and outside New York’s public housing system, billions of dollars of maintainence are being put off, and the buildings are really showing it.

ByKathleen McGowan 2 minRead time

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BENEFITS: PAPER OR PLASTIC?

A new city system to use debit cards for food stamps and welfare benefits relies too much on suburban style supermarkets and ATMs, critics charge.

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OCEANHILL SEES SEA CHANGE: NO MORE HOUSING

The Oceanhill-Brownsville Tenants Association holds the title to thousands of low-income apartment units in Brooklyn, but after years of working with the city, the nonprofit is getting out of the…

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Jan 1999

HPD STALLS CASH, PLANS, LEAVES GROUPS WONDERING

The city’s housing agency keeps putting off unveiling its new management system. Worse, it also hasn’t released contract money to local nonprofits for a new program.