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

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 ...

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 original version of this post was published on May 19, 2025. Earlier this year, the Adams administration quietly proposed a major change to CityFHEPS, New York City’s primary rental assistance ...

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 ...

More than a quarter of New Yorkers living in poverty last year reported that they, or a member of their household, had student debt. An even greater share of moderate- and high-income households ...

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 ...

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 ...

On June 25, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) voted to freeze rents for one- and two-year leases in the city's approximately one million rent-stabilized apartments. The decision reflects ...