The Community Service Society of New York (CSS) has worked with and for New Yorkers since 1843 to promote economic opportunity and champion an equitable city and state. We pow ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Press Release: Survey of Low-Income New Yorkers Shows Employers Shedding Jobs and Cutting Benefits ‹ First < 19 20 21 Visit our programs: Benefits Plus Learning Center | Community Health Advocates | ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest findings from the Community Service Society of New York’s (CSS) annual Unheard Third survey highlight ongoing concerns many New York City tenants continue to have about housing ...

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, ...

A new Community Service Society of New York (CSS) report finds that financial precarity in New York State is no longer confined to those in poverty but increasingly affects households across income ...