Could this week bring the third Legal Services strike in a decade? These public interest lawyers have been without a contract since June–and the union’s leadership says it’s looking close.
With three of her children already languishing in foster care with the case stalled in court, a young immigrant hides among the faithful rather than turn her newborn baby over…
The federal 203(k) program is supposed to help nonprofits buy and rehab run-down properties, but in New York, profiteers have snatched up apartments at bargain prices and bilked the rehabbers…
Republicans say the federal housing department’s Community Builders program is pure political patronage, defenders say it helps the agency connect with the communities it serves. Either way, it will be…
Hundreds of public housing tenants swarmed a public hearing last week about NYCHA’s five-year plan, which they say is too vague in some parts and wrong in others.
