Mayor Bloomberg has said he’d like to see some affordable housing built as part of downtown’s redevelopment, but his policy for making that happen may have some holes–particularly since it is so reminiscent of the decades-old Battery Park City deal which produced few affordable apartments.
The Rent Guidelines Board will go into its first vote of the season on Tuesday short one of two tenant representatives, but the mayor’s office is considering filling the open spot with a housing attorney who was known for ruffling Giuliani’s feathers in the late 1990s, and could shift the outcome of the final guidelines vote in June.
A roundup of likely budget casualties if NYC fails to garner additional funds from Albany and Washington.
In what could be Mayor Bloomberg’ s first comment on the Giuliani administration’s welfare policy, the new welfare commissioner has signaled she may back away from the old regime’s plan to hire a temp agency to place thousands of welfare recipients into city jobs.
A proposed federal recession relief package will allow the state and city to spend $110 million less on poverty measures this year.
In the days before the general election, some candidates are taking unusual steps to make it into the City Council, and to stir things if the voters do send them there.
With the city’s attention focused on the terrorist attacks, and with some South Asian and Arab immigrants still reeling from bias attacks waged against them over the last two weeks, City Council candidates fear their hopes of becoming the first person from their countries to be elected to public office in the United States will be dashed tomorrow, primary day.
With an eye toward the next two years’ elections in New York, an unlikely coalition of big banks, real estate developers and advocates for the homeless have agreed on a proposal to put low- and middle-income housing development on the map.
Nonprofit city contractors routinely grumble that they don’t get paid on time. A City Council hearing–and potential rule changes–may ease their pain.
Could this week bring the third Legal Services strike in a decade? These public interest lawyers have been without a contract since June–and the union’s leadership says it’s looking close.
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