With a Section 8 agreement on a Manhattan building about to wane, the feds are only willing to pay half of what the landlord now wants–and the elderly renters are caught in the middle.
The city’s child welfare agency says more than 300 workers in the system don’t pass muster, the union says it’s just a case of union-busting.
The Howie the Harp center prepares students for outreach, counseling, advocacy and case management jobs.
People with AIDS are living longer, often with complex mental health and drug issues. While AIDS housing nonprofits are preparing for the influx, the city’s new AIDS housing push has stalled before it started.
Violating legal mandates to provide handicapped-accessible apartments, the housing authority is ignoring the needs of thousands of disabled tenants, some of whom have to dismantle and reassemble their wheelchairs just to get through their own front doors.
Scheduled cuts in Food Stamps and disability benefits have given legal immigrants good reason to panic.
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