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…
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.
