By John Golden — October 30, 2014 Speaking Monday at a regional housing summit in New Windsor, state Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced he will allocate an additional $40 million from New York’s share of a national mortgage...
Here Are The Most Unequal Counties In America Huffington Post/By Emily Cohen — September 23, 2014 Welcome to the United States of Inequality. The map below, based on data from the Census Bureau’s 2013 American Community Survey, shows the...
Seventeen years ago in 1997, 14 families purchased their newly-constructed attached homes on Colonial Road in Peekskill, each utilizing $25,000 first-time homebuyer grants provided by Community Housing Innovations. They were African American, White, Hispanic and of Indian descent, all...
Executive Director and co-founder Alexander Roberts accepted CHI’s award for being the “Outstanding Nonprofit” in Westchester at a reception in White Plains on September 18. Citing its innovative history and quality services, 914INC., a quarterly business magazine from the publishers...
The heroine in Fanchon Stylezz’s first novel, Heart of Kings, grows up in Long Island, gets drawn into a love triangle that puts her in grave danger, and suffers a near-fatal heart attack. While the story is not totally...
The Town of Babylon, Century 21 Adams Real Estate and CHI are announcing a comprehensive plan to provide middle-income families on Long Island financial and educational incentives to help them fulfill the American Dream of homeownership. The initiative, which...
By Elizabeth Ganga — September 15, 2014 Westchester officials have to decide if they will use a new report that cites towns with potentially discriminatory zoning to try to save millions of dollars in community development grants that will...
By David M. Schwartz — September 10, 2014 Transgender people, pregnant women, nursing mothers, domestic violence victims and military members will receive added protection from discrimination by the Suffolk Human Rights Commission under a bill passed unanimously by county...
By Elizabeth Ganga, eganga@lohud.com — September 9, 2014 Six towns and villages in Westchester have zoning laws that push blacks and Hispanics into certain neighborhoods or have other problems that make them potentially exclusionary under federal law, according to...