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

Friends mourn the loss of one of the pioneers of urban homesteading.

A welfare cut-off might bring the end to a SRO resident’s stay.

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.

AIDS-related deaths in New York State prisons are down, thanks to some changes in health care policies.

The city is about to accept applications to take over 44 tax-delinquent properties in the South Bronx, the first step in its new “third party transfer” system.

The city’s housing agency keeps putting off unveiling its new management system. Worse, it also hasn’t released contract money to local nonprofits for a new program.

Critics have been leery of a plan to merge the city’s health and mental-health departments, but a leaked memo allays some of their fears.