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Neighbors of the M35’s 125th Street stop are frustrated by garbage and bad behavior they blame on men who use the bus to get to and from Ward’s Island. The…

ByGustavo Solis 2Comments

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Oct 2012

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Home and Away: A Timeline of Public Housing in the United States and New York City

1934: Depression-era public works money is earmarked for public housing. The New York City Housing Authority is created. 1935: First Houses, the first public housing project in the United States, is…

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

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May 2012

Investigations Justice

City Investigating Home for LGBT Youth

Current and former residents of a group home for LGBT youth say physical abuse, sexual misconduct and financial mismanagement were common.

ByAdelyn Maldonado and Julio Palleiro 3Comments

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Mar 2012

Justice

City Limits Criminal Justice Reporting Honored

The National Council on Crime and Delinquency recognized our coverage of staff sexual misconduct in New York’s prisons and the housing challenges facing former inmates.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Mar 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Three-Quarter Houses Mix Problems with Positives

The unregulated rooming houses often feature crowded, unsafe conditions. But even some critics point out that they play an important role in keeping people off the street.

ByPatrick Arden 0Comments

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Mar 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Lawsuits Target Three-Quarter Operators

At some dormitories for homeless people, lawyers allege, landlords forced tenants to attend particular drug programs and failed to provide safe housing. But operators say they were trying to do…

ByPatrick Arden 0Comments

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Mar 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Deep Concerns about ‘Three-Quarter’ Housing

Three-quarter homes give people who are homeless, leaving prison or seeking substance-abuse treatment a place to stay. But critics say the houses are unregulated and sometimes unsafe.

ByPatrick Arden 2Comments

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Mar 2012

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Homelessness: It’s About Race, Not Just Poverty

A new report finds black families are seven times more likely than whites to end up in the shelter system. For a minority group that’s faced official and informal housing…

ByRalph da Costa Nunez 45Comments

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Jan 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Feds Fall Down on Homeless Women Vets

The number of homeless women veterans tracked by the federal Department of Veterans Affairs has more than doubled in the past five years, but they are poorly served by existing…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jan 2012

Housing and Homelessness

Amid Court Fight, Formerly Homeless In Limbo

The end of the Advantage subsidy program leaves advocates battling to salvage a policy they criticized, the city bracing for more demand for scarce shelter beds and low-income families wondering…

ByDaniel Prendergast 0Comments

The Men Who Ride the Homeless Bus

Home and Away: A Timeline of Public Housing in the United States and New York City

City Investigating Home for LGBT Youth

City Limits Criminal Justice Reporting Honored

Three-Quarter Houses Mix Problems with Positives

Lawsuits Target Three-Quarter Operators

Deep Concerns about ‘Three-Quarter’ Housing

Homelessness: It’s About Race, Not Just Poverty

Feds Fall Down on Homeless Women Vets

Amid Court Fight, Formerly Homeless In Limbo

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