The city’s practice of selling off distressed real estate to private owners instead of developing it into new housing has sent one Harlem property to the biggest auction block of them all: eBay.
As state legislators dare Gov. Pataki with a $2 billion cut to social services, providers look on with apprehension.
City Councilmembers last week introduced a bill to encourage better education and training for New Yorkers in workfare, but its supporters worry that even if the bill does pass, it will fall in step with other mandated safeguards that the mayor has chosen not to enforce.
A proposal to anchor a power plant in the Gowanus Canal resurfaces, to the dismay of local residents.
Activists were dismayed to learn the City Council has quietly approved a two-year extension of a program for dealing with homeowners with large tax debts, fearing that without a change, poor elderly homeowners will continue to lose their houses in large numbers.
A plan to build hundreds of units of housing in Bushwick passed phase I of the land-use approval process last week, taking a step closer to becoming one of the first “brownfields” to be developed in the state.
The state Department of Education might want to re-read the Americans with Disabilities Act, suggests an advocacy group which last week filed a complaint in federal court that charged the agency with forcing students with special needs to wait up to two years to take their GED test.
In the waning days of Mayor Giuliani’s regime, the city’s welfare office is rushing to consolidate the jobs of thousands of staff.
Life on welfare will be tougher once the state’s new program takes cash away from recipients–if they can even make it there.
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