The hype holds that working poor is the thing to be these days. But a close look at the resources available to low-paid working families shows that getting people off welfare is a lot more popular than keeping them off.
A new public housing rule kicked in this month that requires unemployed residents to do eight hours of community service. Today, tenants protest this much-hated law, which they say stinks of forced labor.
At 25, Dushaw Hockett is the fresh young face at the head of the New York City Public Housing Resident Alliance, organizing tenants in the projects he grew up in.
Among the vague language in the New York City Housing Authority’s new five-year-plan is a controversial income-mixing plan.
A new agenda for the New York City Housing Authority needs to be matched by new respect for tenants.
Since the late 1970s, the city’s Tenant Interim Lease program has been helping low-income renters become apartment owners. As TIL celebrates its 20th anniversary, advocates are fighting charges that the program is a waste of tax dollars.
The perils of requiring Regents exams for high school graduation.
The Administration for Children’s Services’ slow application process has made its emergency housing relief virtually useless.
To keep their city consulting dollars, neighborhood housing groups now have to lend a hand to landlords.
The city housing authority has systematically weakened its officially sanctioned tenant advisory council to the point where the group has become useless.
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