Looking to pressure elected officials to act immediately on immigration reform, a group of New Yorkers set out on a road trip around the state.

Homeowners in Bushwick have seen home prices sink 45% in two years. Hopes for the neighborhood’s revitalization rest on the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program 2, but its benefits are uncertain.

After President Obama announced a $75 billion plan for homeowners in distress, shady companies started offering Bushwick residents help with their mortgage modifications… for a fee.

Subprime loans and costly refinancing proliferated in the predominantly Hispanic neighborhood of Bushwick before the housing crisis. Now area families face the consequences.

The fire that killed five Guatemalans revealed features of the life of the undocumented: what it means not being able to go home and how deportation does not always mean permanent removal.

Some scammers are already preying on unwitting –or desperate– Haitian applicants seeking protected status.

Feet in 2 Worlds and Polish Daily News reporter Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska portrays the daily struggles of Latina and Polish women who seek domestic work in Brooklyn in her latest story for The New York Times.

On New Year’s Day, Jean Montrevil was detained in an immigration lockup. Less than a month later, after being freed following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, he will stand outside another jail where immigrants are held to protest the laws that placed him a breath away from deportation.

Can people change? This question is at the heart of the fight between Homeland Security and detained immigration activist Jean Montrevil. The answer has major implications for the reforms that lawmakers propose when they take up immigration reform after health care.

This is the first in a special two-part series on domestic violence in immigrant communities by Feet in Two Worlds reporters. Jelena Kopanja reports from New York the challenges faced by immigrant women.