This summer, a college intern agreed to help a welfare recipient handle a couple of problems. Their travails have lessons to teach all of us about welfare reform. Excerpts from…
To 2,000 Brooklyn tenants, the federal government’s low-income housing tax-shelters have created a slumlord subsidy. After 25 years of living with rats, leaky roofs and gun battles, the residents finally…
The state Division of Housing and Community Renewal has come up with a novel way to clear out its backlog: a new paperwork hurdle that forces many tenants to drop…
