Merchants in Brownsville are paying extra taxes to get a better business climate. So far, though, all they’re getting is promises from the Business Improvement District they fund.
In mid-September, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist and Muslim religious leaders got together to issue a declaration that housing should be considered a “sacred right.”
Ostensibly about a new contract for the executive director, the slow motion break-up of the city’s environmental justice coalition has deeper issues at its core.
According to a new report by ACORN, predatory loans–which are overly expensive and designed to drive a borrower into default–are all too pervasive in low-income communities.
Tax deliquent properties in New York also tend to be poorly maintained properties–sometimes dangerously so. After years of letting deadbeats slide, the city has begun to push for changes.
New York’s child welfare agency routinely takes children from their parents before a judge has a chance to review the case. A new landmark decision says that’s not okay.
