Kim Nauer, Author at City Limits

And the winners are…

Kim Nauer | June 24, 2002

Big prizes and prestigious honors: City Limits toots its own horn.

Roberts' Rules

Kim Nauer | March 1, 1998

To keep their city consulting dollars, neighborhood housing groups now have to lend a hand to landlords.

HOUSING HELPERS BLAST CITY PLAN

Kim Nauer | February 23, 1998

The city has changed its neighborhood housing services programs, much to the chagrin of low-income community advocates.

An East New York apartment complex suffered for years under HUD’s un-watchful eye. Now they are moving toward a future of tenant ownership and better living conditions–if only the city will give them a tax break.

Bronx

Reversal of Fortune

Kim Nauer | December 1, 1997

Last month we broke the story of a sweetheart deal for the financiers–and tenants–of a notorious South Bronx housing project. Now HUD says all bets are off.

Bronx

HUD PULLS PLUG ON BAILOUT OF BATTERED BRONX BUILDINGS

Kim Nauer | November 10, 1997

Washington may kill a deal for tenant control of one of the city’s worst housing projects because it covers the tracks of the negligent landlords, as reported in the latest issue of City Limits.

Bronx

Anatomy of a Sweetheart Deal

Kim Nauer | November 1, 1997

The Jose de Diego Beekman Houses in Mott Haven has been a sweetheart to everybody–except its besieged tenants. Billionaires like Bob Tisch made it a quiet hideaway for tax shelter cash. Murdering drug gangs like the Wild Cowboys made it their hole in the wall. Now its tenants are creating a bailout that may be the model for hundreds of similar projects across the country. It also happens to help out a high-powered Clinton fundraiser.