Economy
Those Who Lend A Hand Up Wouldn't Mind A Handout
Karen Loew |
In needy times, social services nonprofit leaders strategize about how to do even more with even less.
Bronx
Volunteer Shelter Network Up In Arms Over Changes
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A proposed reorganization of homeless drop-in centers and overnight beds by the city has advocates crying foul.
Economy
Budget Backfire: Cuts On the Needy Won't Help
Ron Deutsch and Mary Brosnahan |
A raft of painful funding reductions is not the best way out of the state’s budget crisis.
Education
Among Heartland Homages, Pols Address Urban Issues
Jarrett Murphy |
The presidential candidates have staked out very different positions on housing, schools, crime, infrastructure and other issues key to urban America.
Bronx
A Ballot's Breadth Away From Rejoining Society
Curtis Stephen |
Many ex-offenders want to reclaim their vote. But one month before the presidential election, confusion about eligibility still reigns.
Bronx
What the Other Half Thinks
Karen Loew |
Along with incomes in the four to five digits comes a dimmer view of lifting term limits.
Justice
A Settlement That's 'Final, Permanent, Enforceable'
Matt Schwarzfeld |
After pushing for the right of homeless families to shelter for a quarter-century, lawyer Steven Banks reflects on what it means to end the case.
Bronx
Homeless Numbers High Despite Money and Effort
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More than four years into a five-year plan to greatly reduce homelessness, officials find the problem a tenacious one.
Homelessness
Subsidized Tenants Face The Not-For-Rent Sign
Rachel Nielsen |
Landlords can’t turn away renters if their rent money comes from government assistance. Despite a new law, however, they’re still doing exactly that.
Brooklyn
ACTIVISTS SHIFT STRATEGY IN SHELTER CONTROVERSY
Michelle Han |
Opponents go to court and to Albany to stop city plan for new men’s intake center.
