The Giuliani administration hit legal services for tenants hard last week in its budget cut proposals, leaving some public interest lawyers gearing up to shut their doors.
After months of sitting on federal cash meant for creating new child care slots, the city’s budget for these programs is about to get very tight.
In September, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development made a move to end this “flipping,” by proposing new rules withholding federal mortgage guarantees from properties that have recently been resold.
The city’s massive–and unexamined–tax lien sales program is swelling the ranks of homeowners desperate to pay off tax debt, creating perfect targets for predatory lenders.
A legal ruling opens the possibility that a tenant can be evicted for what he should have known was going on in his apartment.
A proposed federal recession relief package will allow the state and city to spend $110 million less on poverty measures this year.
High-interest lenders were responsible for nearly half of all refinanced mortgages in the city last year, according to a new study by ACORN.
After four long years of waiting for their homes to be spruced up, residents of Medgar Evers Houses in Bed-Stuy have received the go-ahead to begin their ambitious plans to rehab the buildings with the help of some non-profit partners.
Tenants of a troubled building in Harlem hope to get some relief soon as the city announces plans to transfer their home to a new owner later this month. The future could be held up in court, however, as the current owner vows to do whatever it takes to block the city’s plans.
With a year left until the nation’s welfare law comes up for reauthorization, New York’s welfare commissioners argued for the right to limit spending on poverty-fighting programs at the first round of the feds’ listening tour last week.
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