The crisis in the national housing market has slipped from the front pages. But in New York’s neighborhoods of color, the twin crises of foreclosures and joblessness are still big…
The Housing Authority’s Chairman John Rhea warned of 3,000 layoffs unless the federal government moves to close a billion-dollar gap in public housing funding.
A coalition of economic advocacy groups wants a federal bank regulator to give JP Morgan Chase a poor grade for its compliance with an anti-redlining law.
The president’s neighborhood-based anti-poverty initiatives will soon move into a second stage. But in an era of budget-cutting, Promise Neighborhoods and Choice Neighborhoods face a steep political challenge.
On Thursday The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association honored Diana Scholl for her December 2010 investigation of transgender homeless living. The article, “For Transgender Homeless, Choice of Shelter…
Opponents of a planned East 91st Street waste transfer station say the city should reconsider alternatives. But advocates from other neighborhoods believe the site is right for establishing a fairer…
While statisticians wrestle over whether the decennial count accurately captured New York’s population, CUNY journalism students looked inside the numbers for stories of ethnic change in places like Ridgewood, Queens.
State leaders are edging toward a deal to preserve rent regulations. But advocates who’d hoped not just to save the laws but to strengthen them wonder what the final deal…
A new report finds that the 421-a tax exemption cost the city nearly $755 million last year and has produced a mere 5,700 units of affordable housing over its quarter-century…
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