Health and Environment
Medicaid Alert
Matt Pacenza |
In a week full of dire predictions for the city’s financial future, one elected official added another to the stack: Medicaid costs will rise exponentially overt he next few years.
Jews and Judaism
City to Tots: Get Older
Matt Pacenza |
Facing higher fees for in-home day care services, the city has told day care providers to cut back on their youngest, and most expensive, clients, a change which could push thousands of toddlers out of care.
Community Service Society of New York
Dubious Benefits
Matt Pacenza |
The battle over welfare reform is about everything from marriage incentives to workfare–everything, that is, except for the paltry benefits people on welfare actually get.
Bronx
Feds Approve Historic South Bronx Tenant Takeover
Matt Pacenza |
Residents of a massive federal housing project in Mott Haven will finally have a new landlord–themselves–after winning federal approval for what’s likely the biggest tenant takeover of a housing project ever in the United States.
Housing and Homelessness
Neverending Stories
Matt Pacenza |
Another chapter in the history of racial discrimination in Wiliamsburg’s public housing developments opens as the city agrees to offer black and Hispanic applicants a better shot at apartments.
Gifford Miller
Knocking on Wood
Matt Pacenza |
In its effort to rebuild parts of the subway system, the city’s transit authority is using wood forested from rare African jungles, and, environmentalists charge, buying the wood from a company with possible links to al Qaeda.
Flipping Out
Matt Pacenza |
In an unexpected move, a nonprofit recently sold 35 buildings that had been slated for rehab and, in some cases, tenant management, putting a roadblock in the way of an ambitious federal and city plan to undo the damage done by a mortgage scandal.
Nonprofit Dumps Buildings
Matt Pacenza |
A community organization sells its debt-ridden housing to private developers.
Community Service Society of New York
A Fighting Chance
Matt Pacenza |
Young men hope to be champions. Nonprofits dream of creating an urban Nirvana. In the gritty Bed-Stuy Boxing Center, a different kind of skirmish is playing out.
Hillary Clinton
With a Jump to the Right, Hillary Does the Time Warp
Matt Pacenza |
Opponents of stricter work requirements for people on public assistance lost their biggest hope in Washington a couple of weeks ago when Senator Hillary Clinton endorsed a bill that, like President Bush’s proposal, calls for longer work weeks for welfare recipients.
