Manhattan
NEW HOMELESS FRINGE: COALITION GETS SNUBBED
Geoffrey Gray |
What happens to a hard-line group when city government is no longer the enemy?
What happens to a hard-line group when city government is no longer the enemy?
City pols demand more thorough inspections from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
A comptroller’s audit of the city’s scatter-site housing found rampant unsafe and unsanitary conditions.
As City Council members push a bill to save Mitchell-Lama housing, tenants in some of those subsidized developments say the legislation simply detracts from the larger effort to keep the buildings affordable.
Tenants of the Noble Drew Ali housing development in East New York tried to shame the city out of displacing residents to put up homeless families.
To the relief of the AIDS community, Mayor Bloomberg agreed not to contract out AIDS services as part of a preliminary budget deal with the Council last week-but his plan to shuffle around oversight of those services continues to keep advocates on edge.
Relations between the mayor’s office and AIDS community advocates are souring fast over his reform agenda.
New players, a new bill and the same old story for the Council and lead paint removal.
Black and Latino pols join the Working Families Party in telling the mayor to dump his nonpartisan elections proposal.
The public advocate wants to make sure people hear about new streamlined food stamp applications–with media giant Vivendi’s help.