Meet the people who put the “affordable” in affordable housing: freelance construction workers, working for low wages and no benefits–and sometimes for nonprofit groups officially committed to fighting poverty.
A family of seven that lost its apartment to a fire just before the New Year has spent the last several weeks sleeping on friends’ couches as they challenge the…
Residents and merchants in Chinatown are waging a campaign to get more political power–by abandoning Soho to share a City Council district with the Lower East Side.
Still confused as to why more low-income residents and merchants in Chinatown and the Lower East Side are not getting federal relief for the fallout from September 11, a coalition…
As the commission charged with redrawing the City Council district lines prepares to release its proposal this Friday, some of the city’s largest minority groups are poised to fight for…
The activists, laborers and hippies who’ve made abandoned buildings into viable homes were the scourge of City Hall. Now Loisaida’s last outlaws have become government-sponsored homeowners.