Instead of taking advantage of an opportunity to have the federal government cover the cost of health insurance for immigrants, the governor’s current budget proposal would actually exclude immigrants, passing up an opportunity to save more than $500 million annually on Emergency Medicaid funds spent on immigrant emergency care.
Unequal access to the internet and digital devices, or the “digital divide,” has been documented for decades. Today, the digital divide is preventing New Yorkers from climbing up the economic ladder.
Student loan debt has reached $1.7 trillion in the United States and is the second-largest form of consumer debt next to mortgages. In New York State, approximately 2.4 million people owe more than $98 billion in student debt, with one million of these borrowers living in New York City.
CSS’s 2021 Unheard Third Survey—the longest running survey of low-income communities in the nation—finds that a sizeable majority of New York City residents support clearing conviction histories after seven years, notably across political affiliations, race/ethnicity and gender, and across incomes.
Months after the start of the pandemic, New York City is faring much worse economically than the rest of the country. Black and brown communities have disproportionately shouldered the burden of the economic and public health fallout from COVID-19. We explore the data, and recommend urgent state and federal action.
As New York's universal eviction moratorium is set to expire, we review pre-pandemic eviction data and the latest U.S. Census survey measuring COVID-19’s economic toll. We find that New York’s Black renter households face the greatest eviction risk.
Researchers and the media have extensively documented that people of color are more likely than white people to be exposed to COVID-19, require hospitalization, and die. This issue brief describes the cumulative impact of health policy and financing decisions in New York in the last 30 years that have created these conditions, and proposes recommendations for addressing them moving forward.
With a rising number of New York City households unable to pay rent in recent months, we explore short and long term solutions to prevent an unfolding eviction crisis.
In the second part of our series, we explore how existing housing models in New York City meet the social housing goals of long-term affordability, social equality, and resident control.
As New York State housing advocates call for a long-term commitment to 600,000 units of "social housing" statewide, we break down social housing’s main elements and explore the policies that can support its growth.