Erin Drasler, Author at City Limits

Section 8 Is Not Enoug

Erin Drasler | July 1, 2001

Getting a housing voucher from the city is tough. Finding landlords willing to accept them is an even bigger struggle.

AND THEN THERE WERE NINE: WHAT PRICE HOUSING?:

Erin Drasler | June 11, 2001

The nonprofit Fifth Avenue Committee reigns in plans for affordable housing in Red Hook after some community leaders ask for a more mixed bag.

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 an administrative requirement at HUD leaves them to choose between taking on a huge rent hike or the street.

Citywide

De-Vending Fulton Street

Erin Drasler | June 1, 2001

The city will soon take the “street” out of the vendors who line Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

TENANTS TO HUD: ARE YOU ON DRUGS?

Erin Drasler | May 28, 2001

As members of Congress debate the merits of President Bush’s proposed housing budget, public housing tenants fear a slash to a multi-million dollar program meant to cut drug use could mean trouble for their young neighbors.

Manhattan

IT'S CHEAPER THAN A HOTEL ROOM: CITY FINED OVER AIDS HOUSING

Erin Drasler | May 21, 2001

State Supreme Court Judge Emily Goodman berated the Giuliani Administration last week for neglecting to provide housing to homeless people with AIDS the day they request it, and stuck the city with thousands of dollars in fines.

PRICE NO BARGAIN FOR TENANTS

Erin Drasler | April 23, 2001

Residents of the Willard J. Price houses in Brooklyn cheered when the feds kicked out the negligent owner of their buildings, but nearly a year and a half later, they are still waiting for a reprieve from deplorable living conditions.

HARLEM REVISITED? CITY GETS READY TO DE-VEND FULTON STREET

Erin Drasler | April 16, 2001

As part of a campaign to spruce up a Brooklyn shopping strip, the area’s sidewalk salesmen will soon be corralled to a nearby lot, and some fear business will suffer.