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Moving Money Around To Try to Cover NYCHA
Kate Pastor |
Residents of cash-strapped New York City Housing Authority complexes and housing advocates fear that funding fixes have big downsides.
Residents of cash-strapped New York City Housing Authority complexes and housing advocates fear that funding fixes have big downsides.
In recent months, players in NYC’s public and nonprofit spheres found the grass greener in places like the Casey Family Foundation, the Alliance for Downtown New York – and graduate school.
Are public pension funds fueling the rising-rents fire?
The bonanza of thousands of new Section 8 housing vouchers is meeting the reality that they can be frustrating to use.
Housing officials are going to get tough on a ‘common and ordinary’ way that landlords raise rents.
Changes at the Community Service Society, lots of new chiefs at city and nonprofit posts, and even an affordable housing executive running for Congress.
Answers to city dwellers’ questions may not be on the tips of would-be presidents’ tongues, but then Iraq and terrorism have only sharpened an existing trend.
Which bills will pass, and which apartment buildings will go to market rate? Tenants and owners’ pocketbooks will soon feel the outcomes.
Advocates don’t see how a much shorter rent subsidy provides the right fix for Housing Stability Plus.
More than 3,000 affordable rental units leave the protections of this state program each year – including more than 1,000 so far in 2007. Activists and politicians are trying to do something about it.