For ACORN, protesting for the housing and economic rights of communities is easy. Providing social services–and getting paid big bucks to do it–has been a new challenge.
The city’s child welfare agency is funneling borderline cases into an already overwhelmed Family Court system. The result is more kids are in foster care-and they’re staying in limbo longer.
Since the late 1970s, the city’s Tenant Interim Lease program has been helping low-income renters become apartment owners. As TIL celebrates its 20th anniversary, advocates are fighting charges that the…
