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Can Private Advice Save A Threatened Public Realm?
From schools to public housing to hospitals that serve the poor, private firms are being brought in to rescue remnants of an earlier, more ambitious era of government.
Life In A Landmark: Pioneering Public Housing Site Shows Its Age
For residents of First Houses—the Lower East Side site where public housing began in the United States—pride in their historic location is mixed with worries about deterioration inside.
As AIDS Threat Changes, Push For Housing Renews
Advocates, hoping Gov. Cuomo will back a cap on rent for people in AIDS housing, say research shows that shelter saves lives and reduces government expenditures.
Work In Progress: Residents Get More NYCHA Jobs
Since 1968, public housing authorities nationwide have largely been ignoring a law requiring that they employ residents. Evidence suggests that at NYCHA, at least, that's changing.
When Brooklyn Projects Go Down, What Will Go Up?
NYCHA's using community input to plan for what to build after three public housing towers are demolished. But the plan means a loss of public housing, and it confronts deep distrust from some tenants.
HUD Listens To Housing Activists' PETRA Worries
Public housing advocates aiming to influence the direction of a seismic policy shift HUD proposed in May say they see some signs that the department is receptive to their recommendations.
How Much Stimulus Money Went To Low Income Areas?
City Limits toured New York City, Yonkers and Newburgh with Community Voices Heard, to see where the stimulus money went and hear where advocates for low-income families believe it should go.
Opponents Mobilize Against New Harlem Charter School
Hard Math: Charter Schools Race For Space
The new charter school law ended months of political acrimony. But it didn't answer the question of where the new schools will find seats.
Tenants & Pols Protest Handling of Housing Vouchers
HUD Proposes Landmark Changes to Public Housing
Some Harlem Residents Balk At Charter School Plan
The Harlem Children's Zone wants to launch a school at a public housing development. But some tenants worry that their children's needs won't be met.
3 Reasons New Yorkers Ignore The Census
Housing Boss: Big Deficits Remain
In a Q&A with City Limits, NYCHA general manager Michael Kelly says new financing deals have narrowed a gaping budget gap. Yet multimillion-dollar challenges remain.
NYCHA Seniors Sound Call For More Cops
Residents in East New York's Reid Apartments say they need more help from police to protect vulnerable residents from crime.
Cops May Change Frisk Tactics
After years of complaints from some residents, the NYPD and NYCHA are meeting with tenants about police policies in public housing.
Making Public Housing Public
Council's Angry Over Housing,
But That Doesn't Pay The Rent
City Won't Vouch For Them:
No Solution For Unhoused
City Won't Vouch For Them:
No Solution For Unhoused
NYCHA
In a city of over eight million people, housing has continued to be a struggle for decades. In the 1930s, the NYCHA opened its first affordable housing unit. Since then, the organization has grown to house over 400,000 New Yorkers.
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What’s Not to Like About the Cuomo Budget? - Jarrett Murphy
Amid a sea of praise for Gov. Cuomo's second budget, advocates for low-income New Yorkers raised complaints. That, plus the latest on NYCHA, city job creation and the sick leave bill —all in our policy roundup.
Report: NYCHA Residents' Unemployment Has Nearly Tripled - Jarrett Murphy
Residents of NYCHA developments and people receiving Section 8 subsidies post an estimated 27 percent unemployment rate, says a new study, but there are new opportunities to lower it.
NYCHA Big Says (Again) That Mass Layoffs May Be Coming - Ruth Ford
The Housing Authority's Chairman John Rhea warned of 3,000 layoffs unless the federal government moves to close a billion-dollar gap in public housing funding.
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NYCHA by the Numbers
From City Limits' January 2009 investigation of public housing: Families who call public housing "home"
