The Community Service Society and the Progress and Poverty Institute Unveil Landmark Study on a half-century of Tax Inequities The Community Service Society of New York (CSS) and the Progress and ...

Harlem is being priced out of Harlem, and the housing New York calls “affordable” isn’t stopping it.

According to a new survey by the Community Service Society of New York (CSS), 83 percent of New Yorkers supported the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA). Intro 905, currently under ...

In August 2023, the city released the full 2021 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey (HVS), which gives us a representative picture of housing market conditions in New York City. While there are a ...

The primary mission of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is to provide safe, decent and affordable housing to the city’s lowest income residents, the overwhelming majority of whom are Black ...

The numbers are in, and profits are up for rent stabilized landlords. The Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) staff’s 2025 Income and Expense Report shows that Net Operating Incomes (NOI, or landlords' ...

Today, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani selected a long-time emergency medical services leader and veteran of the FDNY to lead the department under his administration. Lillian Bonsignore will be the second ...

The report explains the implications of hospital spending rising twice as fast as wages and five times as fast as inflation in the past decade Unaffordability, lack of access, and mediocre quality ...

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 NEW YORK (June 4, ...

The Community Service Society’s new report, When You Can’t Afford the Fare: How Expanding Fair Fares can Help Working New Yorkers as Transit Hardships Persist, found that almost one in five New ...

Food security remains a pertinent and persistent problem in New York City. With food costs increasing by 10.1 percent over the last year and housing costs reaching historic highs in the city, many ...