Housing and Homelessness
SAVING SECTION 8
C. Feldman |
Some voucher funding restored; more still in jeopardy.
The Disabled
DISABLING WELFARE: NEW RULES FOR SSI
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Families of disabled see drop in income as state recalculates their grants.
The Disabled
WELFARE OFF LIMITS
T. McMillan |
Disabled recipients often don’t get the home visits they need.
Lower East Side
Return Address
Sasha Abramsky |
Law enforcement and social workers alike say the Fortune Academy is a model for sending prisoners back home safely.
The Disabled
The Medicaid Showdown: A User's Guide
Kai Wright |
New York’s health care costs are crushing state and local budgets, and Albany’s leaders are moving fast to stop the bleeding. Here’s a user’s guide to the proposals on the operating table.
Staten Island
Psychiatric Wards
Cassi Feldman |
Unlicensed psychiatric homes operate in the far-out corners of the city and below the radar of the state agencies charged to regulate them. Some are dirty and dangerous, others exemplary–and no one knows where else their residents can go.
The Disabled
DOESN’T ADD UP: BRAD H. STATISTICS ARE INCOMPLETE
Christine Lagorio |
Critics say the number of mentally ill prisoners tracked by a new Rikers database is far too low.
The Disabled
MEDICAID CUTS
K. Wright |
Governor Pataki has proposed a slate of Medicaid cost-cutting measures that some have called “devastating.”
Manhattan
FAMILY AFFAIR: NEW HELP FOR RELATIVES OF DISABLED ADULTS
Amy Zimmer |
City lawyers donate time to speed guardianship.
The Disabled
TREATMENT DENIED
J. Taylor |
A class of parolees with mental illnesses and substance abuse problems who are awaiting state-funded treatment have filed a federal lawsuit against the state.
