A decade after local residents founded the Central Brooklyn Federal Credit Union, the bank for the poor last week was declared bankrupt and taken over by a Long Island-based financial…
Mayor Bloomberg has said he’d like to see some affordable housing built as part of downtown’s redevelopment, but his policy for making that happen may have some holes–particularly since it…
The solution to building more affordable housing, say both Democratic gubernatorial candidates, is state pension funds. Last week Carl McCall went a step further and vowed to pursue the federal…
Some expensive but successful job training programs for recent high school dropouts are losing their city contracts, creating concern among workforce advocates that the Bloomberg administration is focusing solely on…
Residents of a massive federal housing project in Mott Haven will finally have a new landlord–themselves–after winning federal approval for what’s likely the biggest tenant takeover of a housing project…
Another chapter in the history of racial discrimination in Wiliamsburg’s public housing developments opens as the city agrees to offer black and Hispanic applicants a better shot at apartments.
Six months after its new landlord put CHARAS out on the street, the East Village community center has its sights on another property… but so does the Housing Authority.
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is pushing for more money to help New Yorkers who lost jobs after the World Trade Center attacks, but his efforts overlook anyone working outside of…
From increasing funding for pre-kindergarten classes to rerouting billions in cash intended for the city’s poorest, the new state budget gets mixed reviews.
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