Uncategorized COUNCIL WORKS ON JOBS BILL A fight is brewing between the administration and the City Council over how to spend millions in federal job-creation funds.
Uncategorized HEATHER REPORT In the premier issue of Bully Pulpit, the fax monthly takes a look at the ideology of influential City Journal writer Heather MacDonald.
Uncategorized MPC'S NEW OLD HOUSE The Bronx’s Mosholu Preservation Corporation (MPC) has a new home for the tenth anniversary of its community paper, the Norwood News.
Uncategorized OUT OF THEIR CENSUS The 2000 Census will need help from local groups to help find out more about immigrant and other hard-to-count communities.
Uncategorized NEW-AGE SECTION 8 At a long public meeting on a proposed overhaul of the federal project-based Section 8 rules, tenants were mostly pleased with the plans.
Uncategorized CITY WON'T KILL TIL City Comptroller Alan Hevesi has blasted the city’s Tenant Interim Lease housing program as ill-run, but the city says the critique is a chance to fix the program, not end…
Uncategorized HUD BILL BRINGS 50,000 VOUCHERS Housing advocates are pleased with the new Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill, even with some unappreciated riders.
Uncategorized NEW STUDY FINDS INSURANCE FLAWED AMONG EMPLOYEES New Yorkers at small employers or working part-time are increasingly unlikely to have health care.
Uncategorized LETTERS: TIL THE TRUTH COMES OUT Two incensed readers reply to a recent Weekly story about problems with the city’s tenant ownership program, TIL.
Uncategorized WORKFARE-FOR-ALL SCHEME WILL COST TAXPAYERS BILLIONS A new report by the city’s Independent Budget Office (IBO) estimates that the city’s workfare programs will soon cost upwards of $600 million a year.
