Agnes Rivera

Alexa Kasdan, director of research and policy at the Urban Justice Center's Community Development Project, and Agnes Rivera, board member at Community Voices Heard and a resident of the Wagner Houses in East Harlem, discuss their report "We Call These Projects Home: Solving the Housing Crisis from the Ground Up" (PDF).

The Takeaway checks in on Sonia Sotomayor's old stomping ground: the Bronx. Joining the conversation are Mary McKinney, founder of the Concerned Residents Organization in the Soundvie...

Every year Errol Louis, columnist for the Daily News, chooses a community activists he feels should be lauded for their work. Today he is joined by Melvin Blackman, creator of Urban Drug Recovery program and author of Self-Published, Urban Suicide: The Enemy We Choose Not to See, Omar Freilla, founder, ...

We continue our summer series on New York's public housing developments with a residents' roundtable. Reginald Bowman, Brooklyn East District chair and acting Citywide chair of the Residents Executive Board and resident of Seth Low Houses, and Corinne Haynes, resident of Queensbridge Houses and a member of the ...