Eight decrepit apartments in East Harlem are back in the hands of the federal housing department after the landlord gave up control. The feds would like to tear them down,…
The Giuliani administration is moving $25 million in federal money for AIDS housing into a services budget–and some observers say its more about politics than policy.
Republicans say the federal housing department’s Community Builders program is pure political patronage, defenders say it helps the agency connect with the communities it serves. Either way, it will be…
With a Section 8 agreement on a Manhattan building about to wane, the feds are only willing to pay half of what the landlord now wants–and the elderly renters are…
The clock is ticking. Over the next five years, landlords will be able to leave the federal Section 8 program, threatening the affordability of tens of thousands of New York…
If Senator Al D’Amato loses the election in September, the new chair of the banking committee will be Phil Gramm, no friend of the Community Reinvestment Act.
The Senate banking committee just okayed a massive overhaul of the country’s financial services laws, and comminity advocates are worried it will scuttle existing fair lending rules.
Washington may kill a deal for tenant control of one of the city’s worst housing projects because it covers the tracks of the negligent landlords, as reported in the latest…
