Developers getting a break from Jersey City have to put up more than buildings: their contracts now require them to cough up cash for an affordable housing fund.
A nonprofit building owner in trouble has tried to skirt losing its properties to the city by selling them to a for-profit realtor first. Some housing law experts say the…
In the city’s search for hotel rooms to house an overflow of homeless families in city shelters, the Department of Homeless Services has begun placing families in a building whose…
After years of suffering with mold, mildew and crumbling ceilings, tenants of one South Bronx building may finally be getting the help they need from the city to deal with…
In the interest of redeveloping lower Manhattan quickly, members of a downtown civic group are calling for streamlining the state’s environmental review process, but some advocates fear that could compromise…
Tenants could get more time to prepare for their housing court cases, thanks to a ruling late last month by a Brooklyn judge giving Housing Court–not the state legislature–the right…
A longtime environmental justice advocate is moving on, and federal Department of Housing and Urban Development secretary Mel Martinez names a chief of staff.
The city’s former welfare czar Jason Turner has taken his thoughts on welfare reauthorization to Washington, where he was recently made a visiting fellow for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative…
As far as Governor Pataki is concerned, the local school board elections have been postponed until next spring. But tell that to the Board of Elections, which accepted dozens of…
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