Bronx
HOUSING HELPERS BLAST CITY PLAN
Kim Nauer |
The city has changed its neighborhood housing services programs, much to the chagrin of low-income community advocates.
Housing and Homelessness
HOW COME YOU CAN NEVER FIND A GOOD ICOP WHEN YOU NEED ONE?
Laura Claxton |
Tenant activists says the public housing tenants council is under the thumb of the New York City Housing Authority.
Government
New Marshal Plan Flops
Joe Gould |
The new City Marshals’ Handbook has 14 additional sections stressing courtesy, professionalism and respect. Too bad they aren’t enforced.
Community Service Society of New York
Housing Off-Line
Carl Vogel |
A computer “one-stop shop” with data from five different city agencies for every residential building in New York City may never be released to the community groups for which it was created.
Community Service Society of New York
Sweet Victory
Andrew White |
To 2,000 Brooklyn tenants, the federal government’s low-income housing tax-shelters have created a slumlord subsidy. After 25 years of living with rats, leaky roofs and gun battles, the residents finally found a friend in Washington: the anti-Mafia RICO law.
Citywide
Dr. Downsize
Michael Hirsch |
The boss of a backwater Brooklyn hospital wrote the book on cutting jobs in hospitals around the country. His slash and burn credo may be New York’s next health care wave.
Community Service Society of New York
THE BOOK OF JOB
Kim Nauer |
A job market study from the Community Service Society shows the holes in the city’s welfare reform plans.
Community Service Society of New York
Seven Deadly Signs of New York City's Unheeded Housing Crisis
Glenn Thrush |
Rents are rising, wages declining, and the pols in Albany are preparing to slice and dice the city’s number-one housing subsidy: welfare. As activists battle to preserve rent stabilization, even greater threats to low-income tenants lurk just around the corner.
Bronx
HOUSING AUTHORITY ASKS FOR FREEDOM FROM FEDERAL REGS
Glenn Thrush |
The city is planning to apply to a federal deregulation plan for public housing that could radically reshape the rules for 160,000 New York families.
Community Service Society of New York
RENT SHOCKER: 112,000 CHEAP APARTMENTS GONE SINCE '93
Andrew White and Glenn Thrush |
A new survey shows that New York City’s rents are up, renters incomes are down, and that the number of rent-controlled units in the city are plummeting as elderly tenants die or leave them.
