Cindy Rodriguez

Some architects are taking on a new challenge at a symposium on Monday — how to meet the housing needs of those in illegal or unsafe situations and increase options in the city’s housing market.

Homeless single adults will have to prove they have no place to go in order to stay in a city shelter starting next Monday. Critics of the policy say it results in needy people being wrongly denied shelter.

For decades, homeless families with children entering a city shelter could count on receiving housing subsidies to help them transition out of homelessness and into their own apartments.

As the debate over income inequality rages across the country, the U.S. Census Bureau has released a report that shows that New York is the state with the largest disparity between rich and poor.

About half of the students entering the CUNY system from a city public high school must be placed in remedial classes before taking college-level courses — and only 26 percent graduate with a two-year associates degree after six years, claimed City Council member Ydanis Rodriguez.

The first of 40 city-backed programs aimed at helping young black and Latino men escape poverty launched Tuesday.

The city’s Housing Authority wrongfully terminated thousands of low-income residents from federally funded Section 8 housing over a two-year period, Legal Aid attorneys claimed in a recent City Council hearing.

A senior level New York City housing official and six real estate developers were arrested and charged in a corruption probe, it was revealed by federal authorities in Brooklyn court Thursday.

Milk prices throughout the Northeast are 19 percent higher than two years ago, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In New York City, the dairy industry says ...

The worlds of postal workers and left wing protesters converged this afternoon. About 100 people from the Occupy Wall Street movement marched uptown to a large post office at Houston and Varick streets. Postal workers were there rallying as part of a "Day of Action."

Monday is the deadline for homeowners facing foreclosure to qualify for a federal housing grant, but housing groups working to sign people up say only a small percentage of homeowners qualify because of rules that make many ineligible.

WNYC reporters, Arun Venugopal and Cindy Rodriguez, talk about what the latest census numbers say about poverty levels and other demographic measurements in New York City and the U.S.

New York City families are making less money, struggling to pay rent and falling into poverty — and, with poverty increasing in all boroughs except Manhattan, nearly a fifth of famil...

The brother of an Ecuadoran immigrant, who was attacked and stabbed to death by a gang of teenagers in 2008, called for a stronger response from the Department of Justice, which is currently investigating claims that the Suffolk County Police Department failed to properly investigate, report and track potential hate crimes against the Latino community.

More New Yorkers live below the poverty line than did last year, according to the latest numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The NYPD said it may never know whose gun fired the bullet that killed a 56-year-old bystander in Crown Heights Monday night. Denise Gay was shot while sitting on her stoop with her daughter.

A decade after the September 11 terrorist attacks, scientists with the city's medical examiner continue matching remains to DNA samples from victims.

Despite the order to evacuate flood prone areas, many living in public housing in low-lying Far Rockaway decided to ride out the storm — even as a police van blaring the warning "a dangerous hurricane is approaching - you are ordered to leave" circled the neighborhood on Saturday.

Thirty-six tenement style buildings in Central Harlem will soon become a mix of public housing and privately owned apartments for low and moderate income families.

Fourteen Dominican workers have filed a discrimination and sexual harassment suit against a major moving company in Seacaucus, New Jersey.