After a fierce battle put a community service requirement for public housing residents on hold last year, the city is gearing up to start the mandate this fall.
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.
