In its own interpretation of state law, the Human Resources Administration helps college students on family assistance juggle school schedules and workfare placements, but tells single adults and voc ed. students, you’re on your own.
Residents of some federally-funded apartments fear the Department of Housing and Urban Development will rubber stamp a requested rent increase without scrutinizing their landlord’s record.
For six years, residents of the Bronx’s Beekman Houses got the royal runaround on a visionary plan to control their own homes. With HUD’s top brass departing, is Beekman’s dream about to be deferred for good?
The new chair of the city’s housing authority gets mixed reviews following outgoing chair John Martinez’s resignation.
The community group partners with one of the nation’s worst predatory lenders, and gets funny looks from some advocates.
Just as tenant ownership of decaying buildings nears death in New York, the city has pledged to award several hundred apartments to nonprofits planning low-income tenant cooperatives.
Nearly two months after HUD promises to save Harlem tenants from the biggest housing scam in memory, they continue to live in the cold–and the dark.
An unusually broad coalition is fighting for the right to protect homeowners from unscrupulous home loans.
Housing advocates argue that tenants in the city’s most vulnerable buildings needed far better protection.
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