With a Section 8 agreement on a Manhattan building about to wane, the feds are only willing to pay half of what the landlord now wants–and the elderly renters are caught in the middle.
Among the vague language in the New York City Housing Authority’s new five-year-plan is a controversial income-mixing plan.
An coalition of advocates is taking the city to court over its unwillingness to translate welfare and food stamp assistance into other languages.
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