When Maria Jay-Vega came to New York in the early 1980s, she couldn’t understand English–or why the Board of Education was trying to put her son in Special Ed. Now…
Violating legal mandates to provide handicapped-accessible apartments, the housing authority is ignoring the needs of thousands of disabled tenants, some of whom have to dismantle and reassemble their wheelchairs just…
They thought it was the deal of their lives. Working families jumped at the city housing authority’s offer to sell them cheap, renovated apartments. But four years later, nothing has…
Officials at the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) are looking for ways to bring the city’s code enforcement policy in line with the Giuliani administration’s long-time goal…
A group of Bronx tenants can make a federal case out of their lawsuit alleging the city does a better job of housing code enforcement in white neighobhroods.
