Policy & Government

A council of experts will coordinate a six-month community process to develop a strategic plan for preventing and ending youth homelessness Photo credit: CityNews NYC's Health and Human Services launched yesterday the first-ever Youth Homelessness Ta

The Fair Fares program aims to provide half-price transit fares to about 800,000 New Yorkers living under the federal poverty line and is set to launch in early 2019.

The U.S. Attorney's Office accuses NYCHA of misleading malpractices and failure to provide safe housing due to lead-paint violations, lack of heat, infestations, chronic elevator outages.

The package pushes for tracking the use of opioid overdose antidotes such as naloxone, referrals to drug treatment, a syringe exchange program and an opioid awareness education campaign.

The bill, sponsored by Brooklyn Assemblymember Tremaine Wright, expands the existing state sexual harassment law and demands a model training program to prevent all forms of discrimination.

NYC's Specialized High Schools have a diversity problem: Only 10 percent of their current students are Black or Latino, compared to nearly 70 percent citywide -- and city officials want to fix it.

Senator Hamilton will be allocating the funding to three local groups which are part of the state's Immigrant Defense Coalition that launched in 2017. NYS Senator Jesse Hamilton.

The bipartisan prison reform bill aims to develop new programs, including education, vocational training and mental health counseling, to improve public safety and reduce recidivism. U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, photo credit: Jeffries.house.gov The U.

The Brooklyn lawmaker is setting out to make plastic a thing of the past, and he is starting with the straw.

Merely a week after the mayor hinted at a possible marijuana policy reform, he is now preparing for the "inevitable," and directed the NYPD to give summonses instead of arresting New Yorkers who smoke in public.