We have an intrinsic connection to the daily lives of New Yorkers. Here are a few of the places we made a difference, provided context or added valuable perspective this week.

The Legal Aid Society's Health Law Unit teamed with POLITICO New York to expose the consequences of the New York City Human Resources Administration's uninformed investigations.

The binary nature of the public debate — old jails vs. new jails — leaves us with a false choice.

The platform calls on the Legislature and the Governor to pass and enact “Good Cause” eviction legislation and the Home Stability Support Act; bolster funding for public housing; and to act on other housing priorities, according to the Queens Daily Eagle. 

The law, which went into effect over the weekend, was included in the package of housing reforms passed by the Legislature and enacted into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo this past June, as reported by Patch.

After several courts across the country granted preliminary injunctions last week, blocking the public charge rule from taking effect, THE CITY takes a look at what follows for immigrant communities.

“The reason that this escalated is because officers insisted on getting identification for a ticket for a noise violation. Broken windows policing tends to increase tension and violence in communities, rather than reducing it,” said The Legal Aid Society's Cynthia Conti-Cook.

The Bronx District Attorney’s Office finally dismissed charges against Johanna Pagan-Alomar, who was brutally assaulted during an arrest last June, reports the New York Daily News.

Amid pushback from law enforcement about the pretrial reforms, the New York Daily News published a story featuring three LAS clients whose lives were upended because prosecutors refused to disclose critical evidence until the last possible second.

Today’s order issuing a preliminary injunction—the first to be granted nationwide on this issue—blocks the regulation and related application forms from taking effect until a final decision is reached in the litigation.