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Press Release: Ten Community-Based Organizations from Across the State Join EDCAP Network
This expansion comes at a critical time as borrowers navigate the complex student loan repayment system, try to benefit from the latest relief available, and prepare for payment resumption.
Testimony: Housing People Who Seek Asylum
New York City’s plan to house people seeking asylum in an area that is flood-prone, lacking in basic resources, and disconnected from the rest of the city is unconscionable. While this is a crisis manufactured by a broken immigration system that the city has no control over, we do have control over local housing policy, which can help mitigate some of its externalities.
Reforms Prime FDNY to Abandon Its Legacy of Hiring Bias
Testimony: Oversight Hearings on The New York City Ferry System
In a positive development over the summer, the city decided to extend discounted ferry tickets to Fair Fare enrollees. However, it still leaves out many people, including students. Intro 236 seeks to make it easier for students enrolled in a city high school to use the ferry system by offering them the discounted fare.
Testimony: Public Comments on Congestion Pricing
CSS conducted an analysis in 2017 and again in March 2022 to study the impact of congestion pricing on outer-borough residents. Only 4 percent of outer-borough residents (Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island) would regularly pay the congestion charge.
Testimony: Patients Deserve Legal Representation in Civil Court
We Need to Know the True Cost of Living in New York City
Testimony: Making CityFHEPS More Accessible
We know that well-funded rental assistance programs can act as a key mechanism for helping homeless New Yorkers leave the shelter system and find permanent homes. CityFHEPS is the city’s rental assistance program. And, while the city has made strides to improve the functionality of this program, there are a number of administrative, enforcement, and funding issues that continue to hinder it from being as effective as it could be.
Student Loan Cancellation: What borrowers can do to benefit from the latest relief
Last week, the Biden Administration announced that it will cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debt for borrowers. Here are 6 tips from EDCAP on what borrowers should do next.
Disconnected: The Digital Divide & Disrupted Schooling in NYC
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.
Mayor and Schools Chancellor Can Transform Education for Low-Income Students
Press Release: EDCAP is Ready to Help New Yorkers Take Advantage of President’s Student Debt Relief Plan
Press Release: CSS Applauds President’s Student Debt Relief Plan
Help From Congress for Distressed Student Loan Borrowers
Press Release: New CSS Report Documents Impacts of Student Loan Debt Across Age, Income and Race/Ethnicity
Mitigating the Growing Impact of Student Loan Debt
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.