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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…

ByMatt Pacenza 0Comments

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Oct 2002

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Making Change: If We Had a Billion Dollars

Is it too late to stop Governor Pataki’s plan to blow a billion dollars in health care money?

ByNeil Carlson 0Comments

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Jul 2002

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Housing Authority Vouches for More Affordable Homes

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.

ByHelen Matatov 0Comments

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Jul 2002

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Dubious Benefits

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.

ByMatt Pacenza 0Comments

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May 2002

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A Fighting Chance

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.

ByMatt Pacenza 0Comments

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Apr 2002

Economy Justice

In Case Plan “A” Fails…

A roundup of likely budget casualties if NYC fails to garner additional funds from Albany and Washington.

ByCity Limits 0Comments

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Apr 2002

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The Big Idea: Meet the New Boss

Or how poverty activists learned to stop worrying about WEP and to love government jobs programs.

ByBob Roberts 0Comments

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Feb 2002

Housing and Homelessness

HUD’S NEW PRIVATE PARTS

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…

ByPat Sisson 0Comments

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Feb 2002

Economy

WAGING FOR A LIVABLE SALARY

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…