Los nuevos requisitos laborales del Programa de Asistencia Nutricional Suplementaria (SNAP por sus siglas en inglés), anteriormente conocido como cupones de alimentos, entraron en vigor el 1 de marzo. Según…
A new rental assistance program launching this week will help some low income households afford rent. But its reach is far smaller than advocates hoped, and isn’t keeping up with…
For decades, the 30th Street Shelter near Bellevue Hospital has been the main entry point for men and adult families entering the city’s homeless shelters. Officials will close it this…
“Without committing to finishing the park, a mayoral approval of Monitor Point sends a clear message: the city will continue to collect on private development while deferring its public obligations.”
“So many of these issues are interrelated, but so often treated as existing in silos,” says Department of Social Services Commissioner Molly Wasow Park, who departs this week after three…
“When affordability is treated as a real, immediate need, these policies can do more than just manage displacement. They can help communities stay rooted in places like Washington Heights.”
New work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, took effect on March 1. Around 123,000 New Yorkers will have to comply with the…
Squatters took up illegal residence in hundreds of empty NYCHA apartments in recent years, as the units waited for often extensive repair work before they could be rented out again.
