pension funds Archives

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"Comptroller Brad Lander has proposed moving some of the city’s enormous pension fund business from dirtier to cleaner money managers," the authors write. "If he gets the pension fund trustees…

ByJose Gonzalez

ByPete Sikora

ByDorian Fulvio 2Comments

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Jun 2025

2025 Elections Economy Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Politics

Comptroller Frontrunners Would Invest Pension Funds in Affordable Housing, But Approaches Vary

Justin Brannan wants to focus on constructing affordable housing specifically for city workers in a program modeled after Electchester, while Mark Levine wants to produce 75,000 affordable units by helping…

ByTareq Saghie 0Comments

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May 2025

Education Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development Opinion Politics

Opinion: A Bold New Blueprint for Universal Child Care in NYC

“My plan would use a $500 million investment from our city’s pension funds—a smart, long-term real estate investment—to finance the expansion of child care facilities across the five boroughs.”

ByJustin Brannan 0Comments

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Feb 2024

Climate and Environment Economy Government Opinion

Opinion: NYC Comptroller Should Fight Climate Change, Not Finance It

“Blue cities and states have much more pension fund money than red states. As the saying goes, money talks. It’s time for Comptroller Lander to put money that he manages…

ByMargaret Perkins

ByPete Sikora 3Comments

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Feb 2022

Economy Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: A Slow But Accelerating Crisis—Preserving Affordable Housing for Up to 1.4 Million NYers

The same combination of streamlined pension fund investments and public subsidies that worked so successfully in the 1980s and early 1990s, needs to be reinvigorated to preserve the city’s enormous…

ByMichael D. Lappin 1Comment

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Jun 2021

Economy Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Use NYC’s Public Pension Funds to Supercharge Affordable Housing Production and Preservation

‘The next mayor and comptroller can speed New York City’s recovery by working with public employee pension funds to increase investment in affordable housing, as they have in response to…

ByMichael D. Lappin 0Comments

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Feb 2021

Economy Government

Cops and Firefighters Aren’t Sold on Fossil-Fuel Divestment

The two pension funds, which comprise about $63 billion in assets, don’t seem likely to follow the other retirement plans in abandoning oil and gas holdings.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Aug 2020

Government

Hiroshima +75: Where the NYC Council’s No-Nukes Legislation Stands

One measure would demand that the city’s pension funds begin divesting from nuclear weapons stocks.

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

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Jun 2017

Government

Next 100 Days: NY Pols Pressed to Go Beyond Rhetoric in Resisting Trump

There are ways to oppose the administration’s policies besides speeches and symbols. But are city and state leaders willing to pull those levers of local power?

ByAdam Wisnieski 0Comments

Opinion: Will NYC’s Pension Funds Once Again Lead the Nation on Climate Change?