The Right to Counsel program is being phased in over five years by zip code and is currently available to 15 zip codes, three in each borough.
State payments to NYCHA have soared over the past couple years. But the vast majority of that money is actually Sandy recovery funding from the federal government, not from Albany’s coffers.
In January, HUD delayed a federal rule requiring cities and states to assess whether their policies made housing segregation better or worse. But New York is going ahead with its own self-examination anyway.
Even when ‘controlling for income, loan size and other factors,’ Black were twice as likely as Whites and Latinos 1.5 times as likely as Whites to be denied for home loans, with similar disparities evident in the numbers for refinance applications.
A new set of threats to affordable housing is looming in New York City, thanks to the Trump administration, the real-estate market and time itself.
The outages after the ‘bomb cyclone’ touched every borough, according to data retried by the Pratt Center.
Broken windows policing changed substantially under de Blasio and Bratton even as both men defended that policing strategy to the hilt.
The bureau’s “illegal counterintelligence program directed to discredit and neutralize the civil rights leader” extended beyond his death, to a campaign to thwart the establishment of today’s holiday.
The de Blasio administration’s fifth proposed rezoning will likely enter public review next week.
The election? Well, duh! The 2020 Census? Wait, huh?
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