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March 2, 2012
Historic Jazz Site in Harlem Rehabilitated, Houses Formerly Homeless New Yorkers
At a time when social services are facing sometimes difficult cuts, one organization is celebrating the funding it received from the city to rehabilitate a housing project in Harlem that provides homes and services to the chronically homeless. Housing and Services Inc., or HSI, -- an organization t ... More >>
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March 16, 2011
Slumlords and Your Tax Dollars
AM New York had an interesting piece yesterday about a topic that's near and dear to us over here at Runnin' Scared: taxpayer dollars that end up in the pockets of slumlords. The paper, using data from Public Advocate Bill DeBlasio's office, reported that a beleaguered city program which pro ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2010
Opponents of Homeless in Bronx Apartment Building Lose a Round in Court
Sandi LuskThe Bronx merchants' group that unsuccessfully sued the Department of Homeless Services for quietly entering into an agreement to rent units in a brand new apartment building tried last week to make the city do a study and hold a hearing before letting the homeless in. The judge reb ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2010
New Bronx Homeless Shelter Upheld Despite Lack of Community Hearings
Sandi LuskA Bronx neighborhood lost the latest round in a legal fight against the city's Department of Homeless Services for quietly putting a homeless shelter in a new apartment building. Bronx State Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey D. Wright dismissed a lawsuit against the city agency lodged ... More >>
Blogs
January 2, 2010
City Commissioner's driver busted for DWI on the way to inauguration
Nathaniel Chambers, a driver for the Department of Homeless Services, was supposed to drive commissioner Robert Hess to City Hall on Friday for the inauguration, and if he'd had an E-ZPass on his city vehicle he might have made it. Instead, he ended up arrested with DWI, partly on the basis ... More >>
Blogs
December 19, 2009
City to cover (some) revoked Section 8 vouchers
New York's Department of Homeless Services has announced plans to cover, at least temporarily, the cost of more than half of the $800 housing vouchers the city announced plans to default on yesterday. Homeless Services Commissioner Rob Hess says that the city will cover immediate rent costs for 1, ... More >>
Blogs
November 8, 2009
Drop-in center threatened by city transit plans
The Port Authority has announced plans to evict the Open Door Drop In Center, which provides showers and health services for homeless people, to make way for either the planned westward extension of the 7 line or additional space for bus terminal employees, depending who you ask.
Blogs
October 19, 2009
Weekly Rallies Continue Against Bloomberg Homeless Move-Ins; Thompson Joins Fight
When the city quietly transformed a brand-new Bronx building into an emergency homeless shelter in August, it incited a lawsuit and a blitz of rallies. Last Saturday -- the fifth in a series of Saturday protests that, organizers say, with continue up through the election -- more than two dozen an ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2009
Times: "Cluster-Site" Homeless Housing Bonanza for Landlords, Bad for Tenants
The "scatter-site" housing program -- originated by John Lindsay to set homeless families up in apartments in various working class neighborhoods, adopted by Mayor Giuliani and inherited and perpetuated by Mayor Bloomberg -- was unpopular. So Bloomberg vowed to phase it out. But he has replaced i ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2009
City Officials Still Park Illegally. Our Solution: Jimmy Justice!
Browstoner and the Daily News notice "parking abuse" by civic officials in downtown Brooklyn. Expired meters, crosswalks, hydrants, bike lanes -- these mean nothing to the police, fire, and judicial employees who use their placards to park any damn place near Borough Hall, despite a mayoral crackd ... More >>
Blogs
November 19, 2008
Bums' Rush: On Cold Night, Squads Fetch Homeless to Shelters
Browstoner and the Daily News notice "parking abuse" by civic officials in downtown Brooklyn. Expired meters, crosswalks, hydrants, bike lanes -- these mean nothing to the police, fire, and judicial employees who use their placards to park any damn place near Borough Hall, despite a mayoral crackd ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2008
Street Homelessness on the Decline, Bloomberg Says
Browstoner and the Daily News notice "parking abuse" by civic officials in downtown Brooklyn. Expired meters, crosswalks, hydrants, bike lanes -- these mean nothing to the police, fire, and judicial employees who use their placards to park any damn place near Borough Hall, despite a mayoral crackd ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2008
Bronx Landlord Gets Jail Time for Violations
Browstoner and the Daily News notice "parking abuse" by civic officials in downtown Brooklyn. Expired meters, crosswalks, hydrants, bike lanes -- these mean nothing to the police, fire, and judicial employees who use their placards to park any damn place near Borough Hall, despite a mayoral crackd ... More >>
News
August 21, 2007
Bloomberg Charges the Homeless Rent
The mayor does what his predecessor always wanted to: charge for shelter stays
Blogs
July 25, 2006
City Jobs Kick Ass (Literally)
The mayor does what his predecessor always wanted to: charge for shelter stays
NYC Life
June 27, 2006
Abdur Rahman Farrakhan
'When he came in, all the problems came in'
Blogs
April 24, 2006
Spat Over Homeless Stats
'When he came in, all the problems came in'
News
February 28, 2006
Bum Wrap
On the night of the city's homeless census, street people count
News
February 7, 2006
Kicked Out of the Heartbreak Hotel
FEMA can stop footing bill for hurricane evacuees
News
December 27, 2005
Heartbreak Hotels
For Katrina evacuees in New York, it's no jobs, no phones, no closets, missing meals, and a government that wants you outta there
News
October 15, 2002
A Perfect Storm
It's Residents Out, Homeless Families in at Troubled Complex
News
October 8, 2002
Homeless Profit-Taking
Brooklyn Developer Pulls Bait and Switch on Neighborhood
News
May 2, 2000
Shelter Skelter
Homeless Women, Some Physically Disabled, Face Evacuation
News
January 25, 2000
Undeployed
Traffic Enforcement Agents Fight Termination by NYPD
News
January 5, 1999
Payback Politics
People in need pay the price for Rudy's revenge

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