After a nearly year-long stalemate that left tens of thousands of New York City patients scrambling to access coverage, the two parties say they’ve reached an agreement that will restore Montefiore’s services to those with employer-sponsored UHC and Oxford plans come Dec. 1.
The city’s yearly tax lien sale, scheduled for Dec. 17, allows private corporations to purchase homeowners’ unpaid property tax and water bill debts for about 75 cents on the dollar. The companies can then set fees and high interest rates as they aggressively seek the full total from homeowners, who could lose their homes if they don’t pay up.
“We had gone from being a very functional city, even with de Blasio and all his inabilities, to just crashing and burning,” the Republican candidate told City Limits during a recent interview inside his spartan, cat-free Midtown headquarters.
En 2020 las personas que se identificaron como hispanos o latinos llegó a 62.1 millones y estas cifras de la oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos serán la base para redibujar y redistribuir los distritos congresionales.
Como parte del acuerdo de rezonificación de la Avenida Jerome, los funcionarios de la ciudad se comprometieron a destinar $1.5 millones de dólares en ayuda financiera para los talleres de la Avenida Jerome, fondos destinados a ayudar a reubicarlos. Sin embargo, hasta hoy, los funcionarios no han concedido ninguna subvención a los talleres locales, encontró una investigación de City Limits.
Según el grupo comercial sin fines de lucro United Auto Merchants Association (Asociación de Comerciantes de Automóviles Unidos o UAMA por sus siglas en inglés), entre 35 y 40 negocios de automóviles y relacionados con automóviles en la Avenida Jerome han sido desplazados desde la rezonificación de la ciudad en 2018 del corredor, y alrededor de 150 todavía operan.
According to the United Auto Merchants Association (UAMA), a nonprofit trade group, between 35 and 40 auto and auto-related businesses on Jerome Avenue have been displaced since the city’s 2018 rezoning of the corridor, and around 150 still operate.
As part of the 2018 Jerome Avenue rezoning deal, city officials committed $1.5 million in financial assistance for area merchants, intended to help relocate existing businesses that would be displaced. But officials have yet to issue any such grants, a City Limits investigation found.
Habitat for Humanity Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Dunbar joined City Limits reporter David Brand on WBAI’s “City Watch” to discuss policies for increasing opportunities for home buyers in the city.
Researchers from the Asian American Federation (AAF) found that about 290,000 Asian Americans in the New York City Metropolitan Area experienced poverty in 2019, up from 252,000 in 2010.
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