A few years after successfully ridding their building of their negligent landlord, many residents of the federally-subsidized Medgar Evers houses may soon be forced to leave their homes themselves, as…
A new public housing rule kicked in this month that requires unemployed residents to do eight hours of community service. Today, tenants protest this much-hated law, which they say stinks…
In California, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals is taking on some of the toughest policies about drug use and public housing evictions–and New York lawyers are hoping a…
After much work and negotiation, the 322 families of Harlem’s A. Philip Randolph Houses thought they had a plan to rebuild their 36 run-down tenement buildings. But the city says…
A new public housing rule kicked in this month that requires unemployed residents to do eight hours of community service. Today, tenants protest this much-hated law, which they say stinks…
Hundreds of public housing tenants swarmed a public hearing last week about NYCHA’s five-year plan, which they say is too vague in some parts and wrong in others.
According to sources both inside and outside New York’s public housing system, billions of dollars of maintainence are being put off, and the buildings are really showing it.