Skyrocketing rents have taken center stage in this year’s Democratic mayoral primary, with tenants calling for a rent freeze for the city’s 961,000 rent stabilized households. Using recent housing ...

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David R. Jones, Esq., is President and CEO of the Community Service Society (CSS), New York’s leading advocate for low-income New Yorkers for more than 175 years. The views expressed in this column ...

NEW YORK, NY — The Community Service Society of New York (CSS), in partnership with the Progress and Poverty Institute, the Center for Land Economics, and the Fiscal Policy Institute, today released a ...

Three-quarters of all medical debt is from hospital debt, which unfortunately leads many New Yorkers to take out loans, rack up credit card debt or avoid seeking health care altogether. Indeed, a 2022 ...

Health care in New York is increasingly unaffordable for patients. Over the past 15 years, hospital charges in New York have increased four times as fast as inflation. Hospital spending accounts for ...

A new Community Service Society of New York (CSS) report documenting the critical role housing plays in creating stable and diverse communities in the state and across the country found that a ...

The rising cost of living is making New York City more expensive to live in for a growing number of New Yorkers who are struggling to establish a financial foothold. This is according to the latest ...

Findings from a new Community Service Society of New York (CSS) brief analyzing New Yorkers’ experience using CityFHEPS—the city’s primary rental assistance program—offer valuable insights on where ...

The redlining of Black communities in the 1930s, a racist public policy carried out by the federal government and the real estate industry, resulted in countless Black families across the nation being ...

Over the past 15 years, hospital costs in New York have increased four times faster than inflation. Hospital spending now accounts for over one-third of total health care spending in the state. This ...