A new public housing rule kicked in this month that requires unemployed residents to do eight hours of community service. Today, tenants protest this much-hated law, which they say stinks…
Could this week bring the third Legal Services strike in a decade? These public interest lawyers have been without a contract since June–and the union’s leadership says it’s looking close.
The federal 203(k) program is supposed to help nonprofits buy and rehab run-down properties, but in New York, profiteers have snatched up apartments at bargain prices and bilked the rehabbers…
Hundreds of public housing tenants swarmed a public hearing last week about NYCHA’s five-year plan, which they say is too vague in some parts and wrong in others.
According to sources both inside and outside New York’s public housing system, billions of dollars of maintainence are being put off, and the buildings are really showing it.
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