Citywide
Proposed: NYC Should Have Even Smaller Apartments
Bendix Anderson |
A reimagining of people’s space needs could point a way out of the affordable housing shortage.
Bronx
The Forty Years War
Jarrett Murphy |
The ‘war on drugs’ continues as ever, though you might not hear much about it anymore. The new issue of CLI looks at its advances and setbacks — and who’s caught in the conflict today.
Criminal Justice
A Cop’s Death Accelerates the City’s War on Crack
Sean Gardiner |
On Feb. 26, 1988, members of a drug gang murdered a 22-year-old rookie police of?cer named Edward Byrne, who was sitting guard in a patrol car outside the home of a witness who had been threatened by the dealers’ boys. After that, things were different.
Citywide
Counterproductive Cuts: Budget Takes Us Backward
Nancy Wackstein |
Human services nonprofits and their clients — already a vulnerable group — have already absorbed more than enough budget austerity.
Bronx
When Utopia's Address Was The Northeast Bronx
Esther Cohen |
A documentary reveals the collectivist past of four apartment buildings off Allerton Avenue, which leftists originally built and inhabited.
Bronx
Seeing Green: New Jobs Lead To New Visions
Hashim Rahman |
Participants in workforce training programs for green jobs attain a different understanding of their community — and their place in it.
Bronx
Affordable Homeownership And The '$1 Billion Promise'
Casey Samulski and Rachel Nielsen |
A roundup of springtime news in affordable housing: Encouraging production … tracking units’ status … and paying for it all.
Bronx
Making the Drive to Brooklyn to Find 'Family'
Kim Thai |
The small Vietnamese population in the five boroughs and beyond is finding new ways to connect.
Housing and Homelessness
Time for Hardball: Public Housing Politics
Jarrett Murphy |
Organizers who target public housing have one thing going for them: The density of public housing makes it easy to reach a lot of potential voters fast—and then to follow up with them.
Housing and Homelessness
Chapter 3: Suddenly, No One Wanted to Pay for Public Housing
Jarrett Murphy |
For the past six years the funding from the federal government has fallen far short time and again. And the city and state have also stopped their annual support for the system.
