Fair housing guidelines will be enforced, HUD spokespeople insist, regardless of the victims’ immigration status. more>

Of the more than 280,000 voting age Chinese in New York City, about 126,000 or 45 percent, are not U.S. citizens and not given the right to vote in local elections. more>

A proposed legislation to mandate all city public schools to provide translation services to new immigrants has met with resistance from the Department of Education and some Republican elected officials. more>

A new study conducted in public schools that have 30 percent or more Chinese-speaking students indicated that in Brooklyn, six out of seven of the parent coordinators do not speak Chinese. more>

Manhattan’s Chinatown may soon have sidewalk cafes like those in Little Italy. Presently, merchants in the area are forbidden from setting up sidewalk cafes, which they need to help their business grow. more>

The advocacy organization Blacks in Government criticized the City for discriminating against minorities in its promotion practices; in one agency where blacks are 28 percent of the workforce, they are only 8 percent of the managers. But, there is little information on whether Chinese Americans face a glass ceiling. more>