Burned Out
Kathleen McGowan |
The fire that killed a 13-year-old girl should have sent housing advocates marching on City Hall. But years of fighting for better code enforcement have left them weary, drained and mute.
TENANT-IVE CHANGES
Kathleen McGowan |
City Councilman Bill Perkins introduces a law that would make the city’s program for distressed tax-delinquent buildings more tenant-friendly
Welfare
INTRODUCING THE CITY LIMITS PRIVATIZATION FUND
Kathleen McGowan |
Why you should stop worrying and learn to love this exciting new business trend.
Latino
BLACK AND WHITE AND REDLINED
Kathleen McGowan |
A new study presents the numbers on the high-cost, high-sleaze tactics of predatory lending–and shows that even wealthy blacks often get saddled with these overpriced loans.
Manhattan
JUDGE NIXES NEW LEAD PAINT LAW, ACTIVISTS REJOICE
Kathleen McGowan |
Housing and children’s advocates are cheering now that a state judge has overturned the city’s controversial year-old lead paint removal law.
Neighborhoods
LIEN OVER: BIG TAX LAW CHANGE
Kathleen McGowan |
The city is proposing changes to the tax lien law that would take hundreds of vulnerable buildings out from under the watchful eye of the housing agency, leaving them to the private real estate market.
INS & OUTS
Kathleen McGowan |
The latest job jumping in the city’s government and nonprofit agencies.
Government
WHERE'S THE PORK?
Kathleen McGowan |
There’s nearly $5 billion in federal Community Development Block Grants being doled out this year. Why is New York state’s share so paltry?
HUD-GE FUND
Kathleen McGowan |
Among the new housing proposals coming out of Washington D.C., the surpising–and pleasing–notion that new affording housing units may be funded in the future.
