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New Take on Public Housing: Destroying It to Save
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The $150 million project, financed in part by the federal Hope VI program,
aimed at improving slumlike housing projects, signals a new approach to housing
the poor in Yonkers, where a desegregation battle raged for more than two
decades. The new housing will be a mix of apartments, town houses and row houses
for both low- and middle-income families rather than for just the poor. The
project is also expected to enhance the city’s ambitious $3.1 billion plan to
redevelop and revitalize its nearby downtown....
Each family at Mulford Gardens has been assigned a relocation counselor,
who helps them figure out where to go, when to move and whether to return.
Complete article here: Click here: New
Take on Public Housing: Destroying It to Save It - New York Times
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Gain in Income Is Offset by Rise in Property
Tax
Excerpt:
Property taxes grew two to three times faster than personal income from
2000 to 2004 in the suburbs surrounding New York City, a sharp reversal from the
1990’s, when incomes soared and property taxes climbed more modestly, a review
of statistics by The New York Times has shown....
But it is in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut that the reversal has
been most dizzying, with the states faring better than the nation in the good
years and worse since 2000....
Consider the flurry of activity in the last year alone. New Jersey recently
opened a special legislative session with the mandate of finding ways to reduce
property taxes, a clear barometer of the pressure homeowners have begun to exert
on the state’s leaders....
From 2000 to 2004, property taxes in New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut rose twice as fast as income.
Complete article here: Gain in Income Is
Offset by Rise in Property Tax - New York Times
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