Today, if a woman contacts the city authorities to report being battered, she can very well lose her children on the grounds that she can’t protect them from the abuser. A new class action suit aims to change that.
Data shows that the number of welfare recipients in bureaucratic limbo is almost as high as those who are working.
Thanks to some help from community group ACORN and powerful politicians like Charles Rangel, a tenant group in East Harlem is going to avoid eviction.
In the last few months, the city’s housing department has unleashed or reactivated a slew of programs for dilapidated apartment buildings. Harlem, which still has plenty of neglected properties, will be especially affected.
A new bill gives landlords an incentive to invest rent deposits a little more wisely, meaning more money for owners and renters alike.
The Harlem Restoration Project had a decade to close the deal to redevelop a huge bakery on West 125th St., but when the final decision was made last week, upscale grocery Citarella walked away with the deed.
Last month, the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development published new regulations for the program that will give new owners of 7-A buildings a major opportunity to hike rents and get breaks on city debt.
The mayor’s new budget is actually kind to housing, and the City Council might add even more for code enforcement.
The civil rights generation no longer has the franchise on social activism. Having come of age in Reagan’s material world, a crop of young activists pursue change with a combination of tough pragmatism and idealistic fervor.
Just how does welfare reform work? Mostly through a wide variety of job placement intermediaries, according to a new report.
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