Marvin Markus, the investment banker known for leading the Rent Guidelines Board in passing the highest rent increases in the board’s history, is back.
Tenants who lose their federally subsidized apartments when their leases expire no longer have to wait up to nine months before they can start looking for a new apartment, thanks…
Mayor Bloomberg did not mince words last week when he said everyone will have to make budget sacrifices this year. City Limits looks at what he says low-income New Yorkers…
More could mean less if President Bush’s proposed new budget for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. While it expands the agency’s coffers, the budget could cut New York…
After years of delays, a bill requiring that companies that do business with the city pay their employees a living wage may finally be introduced in the City Council this…
Decades after investors helped Phipps Houses construct apartments for low- and middle-income New Yorkers, they have taken Phipps to court to get out of the state Mitchell-Lama program, and won.
The city’s teachers union overlooked some differences of opinion on education policy last week to endorse Republican John Ravitz in his race for Roy Goodman’s state senate seat, leaving some…
A city advocacy group is launching a campaign that, come tax time, could add hundreds of millions to the pockets of low-income New Yorkers–without costing the city a penny.
The Giuliani administration hit legal services for tenants hard last week in its budget cut proposals, leaving some public interest lawyers gearing up to shut their doors.
An ongoing federal lawsuit filed to end the city’s practice of automatically removing kids from mothers who report abuse from their partners is expected to do more than that: A…
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