CLOSED DOORS

The Bush administration’s advisors on HOPE VI’s future include lots of industry, an anti-public housing zealot and no tenants.

CITY LIMITS HAS A WINNER

Columbia University’s School of Journalism this week will award Associate Editor Matt Pacenza the Mike Berger prize for outstanding reporting on the lives of ordinary New Yorkers.

MOTHER'S DAY MAKEOVER

One of the nation’s leading predatory lenders got some help from ACS this weekend in its public image makeover campaign.

CHANGING TACK

The CDC announced a new focus for its HIV prevention strategy that some advocates worry is dangerously close to mandatory testing.

DOWN FOR THE COUNT

While the Department of Homeless Services struggles to sell its survey of homeless New Yorkers as accurate, the agency faces another numbers challenge: devising a computer registry for a more extensive count–that will determine how much federal cash the city gets.

TAKING STOCK

The annual median income for New York City women is around $4,500 less than that of men.

GENDER GAP

Women make up the nonprofit rank-and-file, but men run the show. And when women do lead, they get much less money.