Economy Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Working For A Safer Spring In Brownsville In an area where shootings and deaths are too common, a coalition has formed to draw attention to the problem, and find solutions.
Government Justice Project Rejected In 'Oversaturated' Flatbush Community members reject a proposed new supportive facility, saying they have enough already.
Government Housing and Homelessness Justice Supportive Housing Faces Down Routine Opposition Neighbors tend to be wary of projects for special-needs residents, but backers say this housing is essential — and may even raise property values.
Justice Trauma Treatment For Foster Kids Gets Reprieve A new state program aimed at helping foster youth in the near and long term is spared the budget ax.
Justice Young Emigres Question What Obama Means For Them Experiences from around the globe lead some students to approach the new president with curiosity, skepticism, pragmatism – even hope.
Economy Housing and Homelessness NYCHA CITY LIMITS INVESTIGATES: PUBLIC HOUSING'S STRUGGLE The new issue of ‘CLI’ looks at the complicated past, troubled present and uncertain future of the nation’s oldest and largest system of public housing.
ARTS and CULTURE It Takes 'Elan' To Make Hot-Button Issues Cool From a little office in Brooklyn, a new magazine reaches around the world to explore the lives and lifestyles of Muslim cosmopolites.
Economy Government In Depth Building A Better Model For Construction Wages Experts continue to differ over whether higher pay for laborers necessarily would mean that less affordable housing gets built.
Housing and Homelessness Eviction Prevention Imperiled By State Cut Housing advocates and clients were dismayed by the loss of the Homelessness Prevention Program — and Legal Aid may file suit.
Economy Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Capital Ideas: Rebuilding Public Housing, Under Pressure Getting the money is only one problem facing NYCHA’s capital program: Another is spending that money wisely.
