The solution to building more affordable housing, say both Democratic gubernatorial candidates, is state pension funds. Last week Carl McCall went a step further and vowed to pursue the federal support needed to make that funding strategy possible.
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is pushing for more money to help New Yorkers who lost jobs after the World Trade Center attacks, but his efforts overlook anyone working outside of Manhattan.
While some of the city’s major unions already supporting Governor Pataki for re-election, other leading members of the Working Families Party are split between the two Democratic hopefuls for the state’s top seat, leaving the labor-based political party with what could be the toughest endorsement decision of its young career.
As the city’s shelter population grows, a group of advocates for the homeless last week called on the governor and mayor to make room in next year’s budget for cash to build thousands of new supportive apartments for homeless New Yorkers with mental illness.
Last minute developments, dis-endorsements and strange bedfellows in lesser-known local races.
Touting expenses for private developers, Gov. Pataki produces a plan to return Governor’s Island to New York.
As Commissioner John Lynch of the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal plans to retire, Gov. Pataki is finding it difficult to fill a post described by many as a mouthpiece for the governor.
Nearly two months after HUD promises to save Harlem tenants from the biggest housing scam in memory, they continue to live in the cold–and the dark.
Meet some of W’s new friends–Mel Martinez, the anti-Cuomo, Linda Chavez “not-Thompson,” and Tommy Thompson, the governor who believes governors should be in charge.
There’s nearly $5 billion in federal Community Development Block Grants being doled out this year. Why is New York state’s share so paltry?
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