One of the city’s most successful housing groups has an entrepreneurial vision for bringing its neighborhood to the next level. Can Hope Community get there without leaving its tenants behind?
New York’s celebrated newspaperman reconstructs the hopeful life–and senseless death–of a young Mexican construction worker. An excerpt from the new book, The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gut
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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