After making news last week for evicting low-income tenants and filling their apartments with homeless families–for a nice fee from the city–a Brooklyn developer has taken the feds to court to try to halt and take over an affordable housing project in Bed-Stuy.
Is it too late to stop Governor Pataki’s plan to blow a billion dollars in health care money?
With landlords still reluctant to rent to tenants who have federal housing vouchers, the city is trying out a new low-income housing policy: Give subsidies directly to developers.
The battle over welfare reform is about everything from marriage incentives to workfare–everything, that is, except for the paltry benefits people on welfare actually get.
Young men hope to be champions. Nonprofits dream of creating an urban Nirvana. In the gritty Bed-Stuy Boxing Center, a different kind of skirmish is playing out.
A roundup of likely budget casualties if NYC fails to garner additional funds from Albany and Washington.
Or how poverty activists learned to stop worrying about WEP and to love government jobs programs.
More could mean less if President Bush’s proposed new budget for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. While it expands the agency’s coffers, the budget could cut New York City’s community development funds and deprive public housing of needed money for repairs.
After years of delays, a bill requiring that companies that do business with the city pay their employees a living wage may finally be introduced in the City Council this week, but its supporters are wondering if this is the best or worst time to raise the issue.
Stockholders aren’t the only ones who take a hit during recessions. Downturns spell double trouble for low-income New Yorkers.
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