Living in the mix: Affordable housing in New York’s luxury buildings, By Julie Satow, August 29, 2014, New York Times: “Brandon Deese lives just a few blocks from where he grew up, but it might as well be another world. Mr. Deese, 23, spent his childhood at the Chelsea-Elliott Houses, a public-housing project in the West 20’s. But last year, thanks to a housing lottery, he beat out thousands of others for an affordable apartment at the Chelsea Park, a luxury rental at 260 West 26th Street…”
Day: September 3, 2014
Falling Food Stamp Receipt
Food-Stamp use starting to fall, By Neil Shah, September 1, 2014, Wall Street Journal: “After soaring in the years since the recession, use of food stamps, one of the federal government’s biggest social-welfare programs, is beginning to decline. There were 46.2 million Americans on food stamps in May, the latest data available, down 1.6 million from a record 47.8 million in December 2012. Some 14.8% of the U.S. population is on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, down from 15.3% last August, U.S. Department of Agriculture data show…”