Welfare chief Jason Turner arrived at last week’s City Council hearing armed with some startling statistics. Maybe not for the reasons he intended, however.
The clock is ticking. Over the next five years, landlords will be able to leave the federal Section 8 program, threatening the affordability of tens of thousands of New York…
When the city announced the winners of its first-ever competetive selection process for foster care contracts, Edwin Gould Services for Children wasn’t on the list. And the city isn’t saying…
Tenants advocates are marshalling legal and legislative forces against a housing department program that moves city-owned properties into the hands of small landlords.
According to sources both inside and outside New York’s public housing system, billions of dollars of maintainence are being put off, and the buildings are really showing it.
Governor Pataki and the State Assembly each have their own version of a new state law that will implement tougher federal adoption rules–but either will speed up the current system…
Most advocates are happy the city’s child welfare agency will be placing children in foster care near their homes–but a few are asking what happens to kids with special needs.
