Joe Gould, Author at City Limits

VOA Eviction Plan is DOA

Joe Gould | January 1, 1998

An alcohol abuser gets to keep his room.

VOA JETTISONS QUICKY EVICT POLICY AT WEST SIDE SRO

Joe Gould | December 22, 1997

The nonprofit Volunteers of America is chastised for how it handles leases and evictions for the tenants in its treatment programs.

New Marshal Plan Flops

Joe Gould | December 1, 1997

The new City Marshals’ Handbook has 14 additional sections stressing courtesy, professionalism and respect. Too bad they aren’t enforced.

Bad Banking

Joe Gould | November 1, 1997

GreenPoint Bank investigated for allegedly engaging in a high-risk loan policy that leads to excessive foreclosures and hurts low-income tenants.

83 DECRY CRA-SS NEW REGS

Joe Gould | October 20, 1997

The state’s banking regulators want to widen the definition of “low-income,” but 83 New York-based organizations and public officials say the cost to poor neighborhoods is too high.

CHUCK MISSES THE (GREEN) POINT

Joe Gould | October 13, 1997

Greenpoint Bank is under investigation for selling unfair loans in poor neighborhoods, but Charles Schumer’s office says the bank’s doing good.

Blight, Camera, Action Plan

Joe Gould | October 1, 1997

What’s all this hugging, grinning and camera-mugging in East New York? Not much.

$125,000 FOR TENANT HELP

Joe Gould | September 29, 1997

State Dems provide a bit more money for free advice to defendants in Housing Court.

BLIGHT, CAMERAS, “ACTION PLAN”

Joe Gould | September 8, 1997

Mayor Rudolph Giuliani made a rare appearance in East New York last Thursday to hawk an enigmatic document titled “The East New York Action Plan”–and to support his embattled ally, Democratic Councilmember Priscilla Wooten.