The feds have hired a new contractor to manage the city’s most troubled public housing developments — and the company’s lack of experience and sketchy history are raising questions.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has discovered a funding hole in last year’s budget, and is looking to pull from this year’s coffers to plug it.
Another chapter in the history of racial discrimination in Wiliamsburg’s public housing developments opens as the city agrees to offer black and Hispanic applicants a better shot at apartments.
Six months after its new landlord put CHARAS out on the street, the East Village community center has its sights on another property… but so does the Housing Authority.
Tenants who lose their federally subsidized apartments when their leases expire no longer have to wait up to nine months before they can start looking for a new apartment, thanks…
The Giuliani administration hit legal services for tenants hard last week in its budget cut proposals, leaving some public interest lawyers gearing up to shut their doors.
High tech communications firms have been hard hit by the dot-com collapse. Now a new gig has come to rescue them from NASDAQ oblivion, courtesy of the New York City…