Today, Mayor Mamdani will sign t he Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, or COPA. The legislation is sponsored by Councilmember Sandy Nurse, who represents East New York, Brownsville, and Bushwick ...

As the cost of living continues to strain household budgets, a new study from the Community Service Society of New York (CSS) sheds light on how low-income New Yorkers manage financial insecurity, ...

The Community Service Society of New York (CSS) thanks Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Speaker Julie Menin, and the New York City Council for their leadership in adopting a Fiscal Year 2027 budget that ...

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 ...

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 ...

A monumental moment arrived this week for the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), when tenants at the Nostrand Houses in Brooklyn began voting on whether to become the first development to join ...

The Financial Coaching Corps trains volunteers, age 55 or older, to conduct one-on-one financial coaching with low-wage individuals and families, and youth populations throughout NYC. The volunteers ...

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 ...

You can watch the recording below, download the slides, and check out Your Roadmap to New Federal Policy Changes. For one-on-one assistance, call the CHA helpine at 888-614-5400, option 3. Visit Your ...

New York City’s chronic transportation woes hit a tipping point in 2017. The subways were in deep crisis, plagued by overcrowding, delays, and breakdowns. At the same time, above ground, the streets ...

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 ...

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, ...