In response to advocates’ claims that the city’s tax lien sales program hurts some low-income homeowners, two City Council staffers defend their efforts to protect residential properties.
By changing the way it funds housing for the homeless, the Pataki administration may soon favor bigger developments built by bigger developers, a switch some longtime service providers fear could…
The city’s practice of selling off distressed real estate to private owners instead of developing it into new housing has sent one Harlem property to the biggest auction block of…
Just as the Board of Education prepares to quadruple the Truancy Reduction Alliance to Contact Kids, or TRACK program, some students and teachers say changes are desperately needed before the…
Filipino immigrants thought they had lucked out when they discovered a job placement agency that focused on finding jobs for people from their country. But after weeks of not getting…
City Councilmembers last week introduced a bill to encourage better education and training for New Yorkers in workfare, but its supporters worry that even if the bill does pass, it…
Tenants on West 19th Street were relieved when their landlord finally decided to fix their oft-broken elevator, but they never expected to be without a lift, and–for elderly residents–without a…
