Justice

RUDY MISFIRES ON GUNS

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Mayor Giuliani castigated federal agencies for coming into Elian Gonzales’ home with guns drawn. He should have checked in his own backyard first.

The mayor pointed to his own police department as a paragon of how children should be removed from potentially dangerous situations. “New York City safely removes 12,000 children each year without a single gun drawn,” he pronounced.

Au contraire, say parents whose children have been taken from their homes and put in foster care. “He’s flat-out lying–there’s no other word for it,” said Mike Arsham, executive director of the Child Welfare Organizing Project.

Bronx

Mommy Nearest

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The city is launching a visionary plan to house foster kids in the same neighborhoods they’ve been taken from. But for it to succeed, foster parents will have to get more than grief for their trouble.

Housing and Homelessness

IN NYCHA SWITCHEROO, HARLEM TENANTS LOSE HOPE VI

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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 the funding must change.

in Harlem. This winter, they learned that they would be displaced for a long time, and that some of them weren’t going to be able to come back.

Staten Island

Ungodly Rent

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In mid-September, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist and Muslim religious leaders got together to issue a declaration that housing should be considered a “sacred right.”

Bronx

NYC'S HIGH HOMES

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A new study shows that living in New York isn’t cheap–and residents aren’t alone. Affordable housing is hard to find all over the country.

THE RIGHT IDEA

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Congressional Republicans ease lobbying restrictions for nonprofits in a most unusual way.