Mayor Mamdani tries to stop a bankruptcy his new housing czar caused.

A young girl holding a baby sits in a doorway in New York City, circa 1890.Jacob A. Riis/Museum of the City of New York/Getty Images Danish photographer Jacob Riis captured the inhumane conditions of ...

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Herbert Hoover, raised in the country, is a champion of the small home owner. His committees and conferences and finally the Home Loan Bank system have all been designed to preserve the independence ...

In an effort to wipe out the slums in New York City, a group of prominent citizens and welfare workers, among whom there are many Jews, have organized the Housing Association of America, of which ...

Spying flames vomiting from a Manhattan tenement one night last week, a scavenging junkman named Roderick Good turned in an alarm. In their beds in the five-story rookery lay more than 100 tenants.