More could mean less if President Bush’s proposed new budget for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. While it expands the agency’s coffers, the budget could cut New York City’s community development funds and deprive public housing of needed money for repairs.
An ongoing federal lawsuit filed to end the city’s practice of automatically removing kids from mothers who report abuse from their partners is expected to do more than that: A judge is calling for more competent, higher-paid lawyers for those parents.
A city program got homeless people stable again–until the funding ran out.
Once respected as a firebrand union leader for public hospital workers, James Butler is facing a dramatic grassroots member rebellion as he nears 30 years on the job.
While a handful of job centers still flounder without operating computer systems four weeks after the Trade Center attacks, the city has streamlined the re-application process for benefits due to expire in December in a push to minimize crowds at the centers.
Many automated teller machines have been down since last Tuesday’s disaster, leaving those who use food stamps unable to access their benefits.
Last minute developments, dis-endorsements and strange bedfellows in lesser-known local races.
When young adults outgrow foster care, the city gives them a few words of wisdom and $750. A private mentoring program keeps some out of poverty and homelessness, but will the city notice?
A Crown Heights church is one of a dozen in the city getting government cash to bring welfare recipients into line. Its minister breaks a Giuliani gag order to speak the truth about charitable choice.
By 2003, private developers will transform a Bronx municipal landfill into a world-class golf course. Now the project’s neighbors are demanding to know what lies beneath Ferry Point Park.
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