The PA’s investigation found that Neighborhood Homes failed a group of potential home-buyers in Crown Heights. The program is winding down, but the findings could shape discussions about new affordable-housing efforts.
A report by the Civilian Complaint Review Board finds that the NYPD on several occasions has failed to follow proper procedure when entering private homes, often doing so without a rather important piece of paper.
An advocacy group says the Summer Youth Employment Program, a valuable but limited tool, ought to be improved and expanded to increase the connection between what city kids study in the classroom and their entry into the job market.
Some think Mayor Bill de Blasio is overseeing a return to the days of deep dependency. Others wonder if perhaps today’s welfare system is just doing a better job of responding to legitimate need than Mayor Bloomberg’s.
A group of women inmates is suing New York State alleging persistent sexual abuse in prisons and weak efforts by administrators to prevent or punish such behavior.
Count Rev. Al Sharpton with Mayor de Blasio among the skeptics about the notion of closing Rikers Island.
The Rental Assistance Demonstration involves converting one Queens developing from traditional public housing to voucher funding and, the plan says, freeing up money to pay for back-logged repairs.
Two men. One microphone. And a little housing-policy magic.
The roster of delegates for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is a who’s-who of office-holders and party elders. The lineup for Sen. Bernie Sanders? Eh, not so much.
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