The New York City Housing Authority announced in February that after years of inaction, Prospect Plaza was now so deteriorated it needed to be torn down. It is the first time New York City is demolishing an entire high-rise public housing development. more>

At New York City's three juvenile justice facilities, a few hundred teenagers sleep in locked buildings fenced behind barbed wire. They wear uniforms and have their movements monitored, as if they were in jail more>

According to a new report, "In communities of color, where the foreclosure crisis has taken an especially severe toll, access to prime, conventional mortgage loans have declined precipitously." more>

At issue is a $4.2 million reduction to the HASA budget for caseworkers. more>

It's been over a month since Shemika Billups learned the New York City Housing Authority would not honor the Section 8 voucher it awarded her last autumn. The voucher, which should have gotten Billings out of a homeless shelter by subsidizing her ability to pay rent on an apartment, was withdrawn by the authority after it realized it couldn't fund the voucher for her – or more than 2,000 others.



VIDEO :: At the end of last year, Mayor Bloomberg said that the City is not responsible for cuts to housing vouchers. NY1 reports. more>