April 1999

Cover Story: Second Helping, Welfare reform ends at the city's soup lines and food pantries. Facing a surge of new customers, volunteers are wondering how they can provide more than just food – and even if they should, by Alyssa Katz. Other stories include Patrick Barnhart's profile of environmental housing architect Chris Benedict; Ezequiel Minaya on the new school board voting rules; Myra Alperson's profile of Healthy Living Systems, a catering business that prepares 4,000 meals per day for local food service organizations; Wendy Davis on tenants dealing with bad landlords in Housing Court being hung out to dry by the loss of housing law department attorneys; Michelle Solomon on the story of change on one Harlem street; Gordon Mayer's book review of "Global Squeeze: The Coming Crisis for First-World Nations" by Richard C. Longworth; and more.

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