The Community Service Society (CSS) invites non-profit community-based enrollment organizations to participate in a unique opportunity to receive funding for outreach and marketing of enrollment services through the grant-funded Keep New York Covered (KNYC) project.
Ensuring fair access to co-ops gives more working- and middle-class New Yorkers a meaningful chance to build wealth and stability. CSS strongly urges the NYC Council to pass Intro 407.
CSS senior policy analyst Samuel Stein warns that proposed legislation opening one- and two-family homes to unregulated short-term rentals would fuel tenant displacement, inflate property values, and undermine housing affordability for New Yorkers.
CSS VP of Policy, Research & Advocacy Rachel Swaner calls on the Council to expand Fair Fares eligibility to 200% of the Federal Poverty Level to better meet the urgent transportation needs of financially struggling New Yorkers.
Evictions in New York City have dropped nearly 50% since the launch of Right to Counsel in 2017.
The Adams administration has proposed raising CityFHEPS voucher holders' rent contributions from 30% to 40% of income if they've been in the program for five years or more. This change could affect nearly 30,000 low-income households with risks of exacerbating financial hardship, reducing household spending on essentials, and heightening eviction risks.
This brief uses the latest Census and HRA data to calculate how much more the average CityFHEPS tenant would pay—and how much the city would save.