Federal law requires the city’s housing authority to demolish safe and clean public housing in Far Rockaway, but it looks like Congress will grant a waiver.
Advocates got a little breathing room in their quest to stop a city housing authority plan to keep the poorest applicants from renting vacant apartments.
In what the city says is a new era of oversight for foster care, several of the city’s largest nonprofit agencies have been put on probation for poor performance.
Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger is famous for cultivating grassroots support. So why is she plotting a Clintonesque media campaign in her race to become New York’s first woman mayor?
In the latest issue of City Limits: How the city’s housing bureaucracy ruined an innovative program designed to allow some public housing to become co-ops for the low-income tenants.
