Economy
“WHERE ARE OUR JOBS?” ASK PUBLIC HOUSING RESIDENTS REQUIRED TO VOLUNTEER
Seth Solomonow |
New York’s public housing tenants and advocates charge that a decades old federal law to provide paying jobs for tenants has been all but ignored.
Housing and Homelessness
PUBLIC HOUSING'S TECH INVESTMENT
Jeff Iorio |
High tech communications firms have been hard hit by the dot-com collapse. Now a new gig has come to rescue them from NASDAQ oblivion, courtesy of the New York City Housing Authority.
Housing and Homelessness
BITTERSWEET VICTORY
Erin Drasler |
A few years after successfully ridding their building of their negligent landlord, many residents of the federally-subsidized Medgar Evers houses may soon be forced to leave their homes themselves, as an administrative requirement at HUD leaves them to choose between taking on a huge rent hike or the street.
Housing and Homelessness
TENANTS IRKED AT HOUSING WORK
Saj P. Kuriakos |
A new public housing rule kicked in this month that requires unemployed residents to do eight hours of community service. Today, tenants protest this much-hated law, which they say stinks of forced labor.
Housing and Homelessness
CA COURT: DRUG LAW'S A BUMMER
Naush Boghossian |
In California, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals is taking on some of the toughest policies about drug use and public housing evictions–and New York lawyers are hoping a precedent is set.
Housing and Homelessness
IN NYCHA SWITCHEROO, HARLEM TENANTS LOSE HOPE VI
Alyssa Katz |
After much work and negotiation, the 322 families of Harlem’s A. Philip Randolph Houses thought they had a plan to rebuild their 36 run-down tenement buildings. But the city says the funding must change.
in Harlem. This winter, they learned that they would be displaced for a long time, and that some of them weren’t going to be able to come back.
Housing and Homelessness
ROCKAWAY ELEVATOR FIX LEAVES ANGRY TENANTS STRANDED
Matt Blanchard |
New elevators for one New York City Public Housing Authority has trapped elderly and infirm residents for weeks.
Housing and Homelessness
TENANTS IRKED AT HOUSING WORK
Saj P. Kuriakos |
A new public housing rule kicked in this month that requires unemployed residents to do eight hours of community service. Today, tenants protest this much-hated law, which they say stinks of forced labor.
Bronx
TENANTS, POLS DEMAND THE DIRT ON PUBLIC HOUSING PLAN
Jarrett Murphy |
Hundreds of public housing tenants swarmed a public hearing last week about NYCHA’s five-year plan, which they say is too vague in some parts and wrong in others.
Housing and Homelessness
NYCHA's GREAT LEAP FORWARD
Kemba Johnson |
Among the vague language in the New York City Housing Authority’s new five-year-plan is a controversial income-mixing plan.
