Nonetheless, three of the agency’s divisions were especially crippled under his watch. One was the unit responsible for overseeing disbursement of federal block grants to…
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How the Candidates for N.Y.C. Mayor Would Tackle Homelessness
Expand the use of shelters that offer more privacy and have fewer rules. So-called safe haven and stabilization shelters offer single-occupancy rooms and fewer rules…
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Rising Housing Costs Leave Homebuyers Struggling
Tasha N. Temple, 38, a client of Ms. Dutton’s, was able to remain in her two-bedroom apartment after using unemployment assistance to catch up on…
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Candidates’ Blueprints for Easing the Housing Crisis
The context Even before the pandemic, about half of the city’s households spent more than 30 percent of their income on rent, according to an…
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Investors Fret as Biden Takes Aim at a 100-Year-Old Tax Loophole
The use of the tax deferral mechanism also provides an opportunity to close the national wealth gap that the killing of George Floyd and the…
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FEMA Disaster Aid Often Widens Racial Disparities
Research published in 2018 found that, for white Americans, living in a county hit by a large disaster was a financial boon. Those white residents…
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Buildings With Sections That Seem to Hover in Midair
The architecture firm FXCollaborative had a similar goal when it designed Jolie, a condo developed by Trinity Place Holdings at 77 Greenwich Street in the…
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A See-Through Pool Opens 10 Stories Above London
LONDON — For a break from this week’s unseasonably warm temperatures (for Britain, anyway), some Londoners cooled off in a new swimming pool that sits…
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What $900,000 Buys You in Tennessee, Pennsylvania and New Mexico
Philadelphia | $899,000 A three-story 1915 brick townhouse, with three bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, on a 1,480-square-foot lot This south Philadelphia home…
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How to Apply for Rent Relief in New York
And finally: Broadway’s rebound takes another step The Times’s Michael Paulson writes: The return to stage is gaining steam. The producers of “Pass Over,” a…
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