Homelessness Archives - Page 89 of 99

ByJamie Katz and Jill Grossman 0Comments

FREEZED OUT: AFTER MASS RETIRES, NO NEW HIRES

Bloomberg’s hiring freeze could not come at a worse time: Just three weeks ago, thousands of city employees took the city up on its lucrative early retirement offer.

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Oct 2002

CITY TO COURT: LET US SANCTION HOMELESS ADULTS

While the Bloomberg administration awaits a verdict on whether it can temporarily ban from the shelter system homeless families who fail to actively seek permanent housing, the mayor’s attorneys last…

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Oct 2002

HUSTLING FOR HOUSING

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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INS AND OUTS

A longtime leader of one of New York’s oldest foundations takes a bow, and a lobbyist for tenant organizing cash joins a foundation to give some away.

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Government Justice

HOMELESS CHILDREN’S CRUSADE

As a state Supreme Court judge deliberates the city’s request to temporarily take homeless children away from parents who take too long to find apartments, child welfare advocates brace themselves…

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BySocheata Poeuv 0Comments

Education

RICHARD M. LASH: 1931-2002

The longtime advocate for low-income New Yorkers with disabilities, and founder of Sinergia, has died. He was 71.

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HOUSING BRAIN DRAIN

As the city’s Department of Homeless Services struggles to house the record number of homeless families it sees each day, several of the agency’s managers and social workers plan to…

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Aug 2002

BySteven Gnagni 0Comments

Big Red School House

After years of pushing for the construction of a few new schools in the long-unused Kingsbridge Armory–with little response from the mayor’s office–some Bronx residents recently got their first sign…

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Aug 2002

Can We Can Go On?

Just as the city’s new recycling laws start to work against them, some homeless New Yorkers may soon lose another resource: We Can, a unique nonprofit recycling depot in Hell’s…