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Testimony: The Rent Guidelines Board Should Reject Calls For Rent Increase
State Repeals Pataki-Era Ban on College-in-Prison Tuition Assistance
Press Release: State Budget Funds Important Investments in Health Coverage, Consumer Assistance Programs and Child Care, But Serious Issues Remain
Two years since the the beginning of the pandemic and an economic recession that disproportionately impacted low-income Black and brown residents, Governor Hochul and the State Legislature last Friday announced a budget agreement that advances important investments.
Testimony: Amending the New York City Salary Range Law
Mayor Adams Must Reform Bias That Still Haunts FDNY
Press Release: “Affordable New York” Has Failed to Make New York Affordable, New CSS Report Finds
Testimony: Continuing to Grow the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP)
Courts Become New Battlefield for Housing Crisis
Testimony: Housing Priorities and the FY23 Preliminary Budget
As New York City continues its recovery process, CSS housing analyst Oksana Mironova provides seven recommendations to the NYC Council Committee on Housing and Buildings.
Testimony: Low-Wage Immigrant Workers and the COVID-19 Recovery
Immigrants make up around 43 percent of the city’s four-million strong workforce. While they are employed in a wide range of industries, they comprise a majority of the frontline essential workers who continued to operate in-person throughout the pandemic.
What Does Congestion Pricing Mean for Outer-Borough New Yorkers in Poverty?
As the MTA reviews the environmental benefits of congestion pricing, including its prospective effects on low-income communities and people of color, we have updated our 2017 analysis using more current 2015-2019 American Community Survey Five-Year data available from the Census Bureau.
Press Release: New Statewide Survey Highlights New Yorkers’ Concerns About Healthcare Affordability
Financial Hardship, Avoiding Care: Results from a Statewide Survey
In a new poll, over half of New Yorkers fear being unable to pay for basic health care, and nearly 70 percent believe they would be unable to afford care in the event of a major illness.
Right to Counsel Works: Why New York State’s tenants need universal access to lawyers during evictions
Before the pandemic, evictions were a major contributor to instability in low-income neighborhoods of color. Over the past few years, we have found a correlation between neighborhoods with a high share of black or Latinx renters and evictions, controlling for poverty levels.
Testimony: Fair Fares Can Be The Game Changer New Yorkers Desperately Need
Transit affordability is one of the lower hanging fruits on the path to an inclusive recovery. Fair Fares is an incredibly small fraction of the city’s budget, but will improve hundreds of thousands of lives, if not over a million lives should the program be expanded to reflect true poverty in NYC.
Black History Month 2022: A Backdrop for Democracy’s Crumble
Testimony: How to Address NYC’s Looming Eviction Crisis
The pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing racial and class inequalities in our city. Today, nearly 220,000 renter households have been sued for eviction in housing court.
Testimony: Policy Recommendations for NYC’s Covid-19 Recovery
As New York City continues its recovery process, we provide the following recommendations to stabilize the lives of low-income New Yorkers.
Testimony: Beacon Tenants Deserve Stability
Good Cause eviction protections strengthen not only individual tenants, but entire communities. They provide tenants with a baseline ability to plan their lives, have some housing stability, and live secure in the knowledge that they will not be arbitrarily driven from their homes.