On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed an enormous budget bill, called H.R. 1, that radically cut health coverage and other benefits for working people, while providing massive tax cuts to the ...

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 over four decades of public service, I have never witnessed such a deliberate and destructive assault on our nation’s healthcare system. The policies of the Trump administration, including ...

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 ...

Thank you for the opportunity to offer comments at today’s New York State Assembly hearing on rent stabilization in localities across New York State. My name is Oksana Mironova, and I am a senior ...

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 U.S. Supreme Court delivered a big victory for New York City tenants, when the justices this month refused to hear a challenge to the state’s rent-stabilization law. That move threw cold water, ...

It has been seven years since President Obama signed the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act (HOTMA) into law on July 29, 2016. HOTMA introduced a massive set of changes and reforms to ...

Today’s Rent Guidelines Board meeting revealed two stark facts: rent-stabilized landlords continue to profit, while rent-stabilized tenants continue to struggle. The Board’s 2026 Income and Expense ...

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 ...