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Our Analysis of NYC’s Fiscal Year 2025 Adopted Budget
The New York City Council passed the Adopted Budget for Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25), the largest in the city’s history at $112.4 billion. In this brief, we assess how the programs we champion fared in the Adopted Budget.
Press Release: CSS Report Exposes Worsening Conditions for all Low-Income Renters in NYC and Conducts the First Citywide RAD/PACT Survey
For more than a decade, public housing has become synonymous with poor housing conditions. However, using data from its latest Unheard Third survey, “The Other Housing Crisis” reveals the reality that poor housing conditions are not just a NYCHA problem but a low-income housing problem in New York City.
Press Release: New CSS Report finds New Yorkers with Student Debt Face Unrelenting Hardships Despite the Promise of Upward Mobility
Press Release: CSS Report Examines Local Outreach Methods to Increase Health Insurance Enrollment
Harlem Activists Aim to Tap The Brakes On Columbia Expansion
The Bronx’s Uneven Post-Pandemic Recovery is Failing Low-Income Residents
FARE is Fair: Low-Income Tenants Shouldn’t Have to Pay a Broker Their Landlord Hired
Press Release: CSS Statement on FY 2025 City Budget
Press Release: CSS Analysis: City’s Proposed Expansion of Fair Fares Will Open Up Program to Nearly 200,000 Additional Working-Age New Yorkers
Press Release: New CSS Report: “A Call to Action,” Highlights Persistent Hardships As the Bronx Recovers Slower Than the City Overall
A new Community Service Society of New York (CSS) report analyzing hardships in the Bronx found that while the borough has added jobs and opened new businesses at a faster pace than the rest of the city in the post-pandemic era, it is recovering at a slower pace compared to the rest of the city with respect to overcoming economic, health and housing hardships.
The Cost of Killing Congestion Pricing
Congestion pricing, which was approved by New York State lawmakers in 2019, is designed to discourage the use of cars in one of the world’s most traffic-clogged urban centers, reduce dangerous carbon emissions and remove some 143,000 vehicles from midtown Manhattan.
Press Release: Statement by CSS President and CEO David R. Jones on RGB Approval of Rent Increases
Last night, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board approved rent hikes that rent stabilized tenants simply cannot afford.
Examining West Harlem: Demographic and Economic Changes
In the years since Columbia’s West Harlem expansion was approved, West Harlem has seen extensive and intensive changes to its demographic makeup, notably significant changes in race and ethnicity, and income. Alongside these demographic changes, rents and sales prices have risen, rent stabilized housing has been lost, and evictions have been ongoing.
Testimony: Pass the FARE Act and Combat Unfair Brokers’ Fees
The Fairness in Apartment Rental Expenses (or FARE) Act is remarkably simple and reasonable legislation that requires the party who hires a broker to pay the broker's fee.
Press Release: Statement by CSS President and CEO David R. Jones on Congestion Pricing
Press Release: New National Poll: Economic Hardships of Millions of Middle-Class Americans Go Unseen, Most Believe They Will Continue to Struggle Throughout Their Lives
Survey reveals 65 percent of middle-class Americans are “struggling financially,” exposes need for national measure that accurately captures cost of living in 21st century America.