Citywide
NYC Budget Closes Gap for NYCHA Senior Security Program
Tatyana Turner |
After weeks of negotiations, the unarmed security program that was poised to end on June 30 will continue.
Education
Opinion: City Students Deserve Consistent Funding for Arts Education
Kimberly Olsen |
“New York City’s Department of Education recommends schools spend just $80.15 per student on arts education—yet school leaders can use that money for other classes and programs, often resulting in the total elimination of arts programming in a school.”
Economy
What Hochul & Adams’ Budgets Include for Immigrant Communities—& What’s Left Out
Daniel Parra |
Advocates are sounding the alarm over both Gov. Hochul and Mayor Adams’ spending proposals, which failed to include several flagship programs they’ve fought for in recent years as well as reductions to programs that provide English language, literacy and citizenship classes that immigrant New Yorkers rely on.
2023 city budget
Here’s How NYC’s $101 Billion Budget Addresses Homelessness
Jeanmarie Evelly and David Brand |
The new budget directs $2.4 billion to homeless services in the coming fiscal year, invests billions more in housing over the next decade and funds an increase to rental assistance programs, but is nevertheless facing criticism from advocates who say the spending plan fails to adequately address New York City’s affordability and homelessness crises.
Art at the Limits
Opinion: Investing in Arts Education Can Help Students Heal
Heidi Landis |
“The arts are a form of embodied play that surpasses verbal processing and allows us to explore, connect with ourselves and others, and ultimately build or rebuild the muscles of imagination when life circumstances or the experience of trauma has taken them away.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: After Decades Of Rules Benefiting NYC’s Corporate Elites, Let’s Put Public Back In Public Policy
Harvey Robins |
“Even in this wealthiest of American cities, fiscal austerity is too often the implicit mantra, as core government services remain starvation diets while wealthy institutions fatten themselves. That works well for the very well-off, and not so well for the rest of us.”
Art at the Limits
After Tough Time for Art in City Schools, Advocates Seek More Funding
Gail Robinson |
After two pandemic years that wrought havoc on all education but particularly on arts classes, advocates and educators have mounted a drive to win more—and more permanent—funding for visual art, music, dance and theater in the city’s public schools.
nyc budget
Opinion: NYC Must Prioritize Housing Our Most Vulnerable Families
Nicole Branca and Pierina Ana Sanchez |
“For far too long, New York’s leaders have focused on stemming the tide of homelessness, and then struggling to meet that low bar. Mayor Eric Adams can change this with a visionary housing and homelessness plan and a budget to match.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: NYC Communities of Color Face Increased Eviction Filings, Displacement Risk, and Soaring Unaffordable Rents
Barika Williams |
ANHD’s 2022 Housing Risk Chart highlights the compounding pressures, and risks, to affordable housing in dozens of neighborhoods. Indicators of speculation, gentrification, and displacement pressure are distributed throughout the city and show the necessity of tenant and homeowner counseling and support programs that defend affordability in every neighborhood.
Art at the Limits
City Watch: Council Arts Chair Urges NYC to Boost Budget in ‘Cultural Capital of the World’
David Brand |
Brooklyn Councilmember Chi Ossé wants to commit 1 percent of New York City’s budget to the arts sector, which shed more than 208,000 jobs during the early months of the pandemic.
