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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…

ByMatt Pacenza 0Comments

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Dec 2001

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

TENANTS ON THEIR OWN IN COURT UNLESS BUDGET BUDGES

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.

ByMatt Pacenza 0Comments

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Sep 2001

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

ON ELECTION EVE, SOME WOULD-BE BACKERS NOD OFF

Mark Green’s stance on deregulating apartments in The New York Times might lose him some housing group endorsements.

ByJill Grossman 0Comments

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Aug 2001

Economy Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

“WHERE ARE OUR JOBS?” ASK PUBLIC HOUSING RESIDENTS REQUIRED TO VOLUNTEER

New York’s public housing tenants and advocates charge that a decades old federal law to provide paying jobs for tenants has been all but ignored.

BySeth Solomonow 0Comments

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Aug 2001

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

PUBLIC HOUSING'S TECH INVESTMENT

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…

ByJeff Iorio 0Comments

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Jun 2001

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

BITTERSWEET VICTORY

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…

ByErin Drasler 0Comments

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Jan 2001

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

TENANTS IRKED AT HOUSING WORK

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…

BySaj P. Kuriakos 0Comments

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Sep 2000

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

CA COURT: DRUG LAW'S A BUMMER

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…

ByNaush Boghossian 0Comments

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May 2000

Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

IN NYCHA SWITCHEROO, HARLEM TENANTS LOSE HOPE VI

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…