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HOUSING DEPARTMENT YIELDS TO LEGAL TEMP-TATION

With staffing cut to the bone, the city’s housing department has brought in a handful of new lawyers to help for a few months.

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TIL the Politicians Got Involved

One 28-unit building has become a battleground for a group of upper Manhattan power brokers. And then there’s Rosie O’Donnell’s brother.

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TIL's Ills

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…

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City Lit: Import Exploit

A book review of Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor, by Peter Kwong, The New Press, 1998, 273 pages, $24.

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New Havens

A Park Slope battered women’s shelter is reaching out to two very different groups of women: lesbians and Arab Americans.

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Clinically Oppressed

Pregnant immigrants are shunning prenatal care for fear of deportation. What are they afraid of?

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BOOK 'IM, SAYS IRS

The bookkeeper for many NYC nonprofits is also protester who gives his IRS payments to good causes to make his point. It could land him in jail.

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Less Than Co-operative

Co-op subletters get the boot.

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OCEANHILL SEES SEA CHANGE: NO MORE HOUSING

The Oceanhill-Brownsville Tenants Association holds the title to thousands of low-income apartment units in Brooklyn, but after years of working with the city, the nonprofit is getting out of the…

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Contracted Out

The Administration of Children Services change to geographic representation might shut out special need clients.

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