Housing and Homelessness
HUD’S MAGIC FORMULA: NEW BLOCK GRANTS ON THE BLOCK
Kai Wright |
The Bush administration’s proposed changes to the Section 8 voucher program would give public housing authorities unprecedented control.
The Bush administration’s proposed changes to the Section 8 voucher program would give public housing authorities unprecedented control.
The Bush administration’s new public health priorities push HIV prevention back into the closet.
To the relief of the AIDS community, Mayor Bloomberg agreed not to contract out AIDS services as part of a preliminary budget deal with the Council last week-but his plan to shuffle around oversight of those services continues to keep advocates on edge.
Take a shaky health care system that grew too fast. Add recession. Stir in Dubya’s new deregulation plan. What do you get? Medicaid’s collapse.
In his first significant speech on the city’s AIDS policy, Mayor Bloomberg announced he hopes to dismantle a law that requires the city to provide a certain level of services to people with the virus — and to place those responsibilities in the hands of community organizations instead.
High school activists are fighting military recruitment, even though an armed services job could be their peers’ best shot at success.
Quality of life legislation hones in on dire threat: markers and spray paint.