In early October, the city settled a two-year legal battle in Manhattan’s federal court, agreeing to provide translation and interpretation services at all of its 21 food stamp offices.
September 11 starkly revealed that New York City can’t function without nonprofits. It also showed how tenuous their finances are. Who will come to the rescue?
Just recently, there was a growing consensus that a healthy city economy included outer-borough development. On September 11, that idea suddenly became grounds for ridicule.
In September, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development made a move to end this “flipping,” by proposing new rules withholding federal mortgage guarantees from properties that have recently…
The city’s massive–and unexamined–tax lien sales program is swelling the ranks of homeowners desperate to pay off tax debt, creating perfect targets for predatory lenders.
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