By changing the way it funds housing for the homeless, the Pataki administration may soon favor bigger developments built by bigger developers, a switch some longtime service providers fear could push them out of the mix.
Last December, a group of teens from the Bronx’s Schomburg Satellite Academy took their after-school project all the way to the Times Square offices of the New York Times Metro section.
An opinion column by Gregory A. Butler.
Ethnic strife isn’t what splits a Sri Lankan enclave. It’s porn.
For years, the New York Equity Fund has been the financial middleman for virtually every low-income housing project in town. Thats’s meant profits for the fund, little choice for developers and big questions about what happens when the tax credits run out.
In the heart of Manhattan’s expensive Madison Square neighborhood, one SRO with a crime-ridden past is bucking a trend.
This fall a Brooklyn neighborhood will not only welcome a new courthouse–it will become a laboratory. The experiment? Whether criminal justice can be as pervasive as crime.
“Supportive housing” provides support services along with a room, setting thousands of residents on the road to self-sufficiency. But with some landlords, it’s their way or the doorway.
Hirings, firings and retirings in the government and nonprofit worlds.
A book review of Fixing Broken Windows, by George L. Kelling and Catherine M. Coles, Free Press, 1996, 319 pp., $25.
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