People on welfare need to work, that’s the mantra over at the city’s welfare office. The next population targeted for workfare: victims of domestic violence and the HIV positive.
Ostensibly about a new contract for the executive director, the slow motion break-up of the city’s environmental justice coalition has deeper issues at its core.
A chance discovery of illegal dumping at an abandoned Brooklyn pier has stalled a proposed movie theater development–and possibly opened the door for a park instead.
“Supportive housing” provides support services along with a room, setting thousands of residents on the road to self-sufficiency. But with some landlords, it’s their way or the doorway.
Shhh. The mayor’s newest commissioner, Department of Homeless Services boss Martin Oesterreich, is getting a reputation as an accessible, open, honest guy.
Council Speaker Peter Vallone and landlord allies keep revising their new lead paint bill. Tenant activists doubt they’ll like whatever is in the final draft.