Press release for the New York City Independent Budget Office's study on the creation of City offices "Recounting the Creation of New York City Offices."
IBO has completed research on how specific issues in NYC's history have been addressed through the creation of government offices. IBO’s scope of research focused on staffing levels for these governmental units, the rationale behind their establishment & their efficacy in tackling the issues.
Using unique case data from DSS from 2018 through 2023, the New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO) has completed an analysis looking at nonrecurring payments for rental arrears. This publication consists of a report and a separate glossary.
Press release for IBO's report "How Much Has the City Spent on One-Time Homelessness Prevention Payments for Rental Arrears." Contains a link to the report and a summary of key findings.
This report is a mixed-method study which investigated the extent to which elementary students with disabilities were being recommended for more inclusive settings with their peers without disabilities in the New York City public school system.
A brief report summarizing the findings in "The Inflexibility of Special Education Recommendations: An Examination of Efforts to Educate Students in the Least Restrictive Environment."
Press release for the Independent Budget Office's report "The Inflexibility of Special Education Recommendations: An Examination of Efforts to Educate Students in the Least Restrictive Environment"
The New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO) is announcing the publication of our report Exemption vs Abatement. This report provides policymakers with insights into the tax liability implications of these two different ways of structuring any new 421-a replacement program.
Press release for the New York City Independent Budget Office's report "Exemption or Abatement? Structure of Proposed New 421-a Program Has Implications for All Property Tax Bills."
Press release for the New York City Independent Budget Office's report "In Custody: Length of Stay and Population Demographics at NYC Jails, 2014–2023."
IBO has completed its analysis on the duration of stays and demographic breakdown of people in City jails managed by the Department of Correction. There are 3 parts: report, glossary & methodology, and a public dataset.
The New York City Independent Budget Office conducted a review of the Points of Agreement (POA) negotiated by the Mayor and the local City Council member for eight neighborhoods rezoned from 2016-2021.
Interested in learning more about budget cuts to City programs like libraries? Explore our in-depth analysis of the Mayor's FY2025 PEGs and their impact on programs, services, and City functions. Check it out now.
Press release for the New York City Independent Budget Office's report "Giving Some Back, Leaving Others Out: IBO’s Analysis of the Administration’s Second Consecutive Program to Eliminate the Gap This Fiscal Year."
To inform New Yorkers and elected officials interested in the program, the New York City Independent Budget Office has completed an analysis examining the exemption of yellow taxis from the proposed congestion pricing Surcharge of $1.25.
To help New Yorkers and elected officials have a better understanding of the early childhood policy landscape IBO’s new report offers a detailed overview of the historical financial trends and policy shifts affecting Pre-K and 3-K programs.
A report on the agency's efforts during the previous quarter to implement the plan adopted pursuant to paragraph 19 (annual plan) of Section 815(a), including details of agency's efforts to implement equal employment practices, including statistical information regarding total employment, including provisional, seasonal, per-diem and part-time employees, new hiring and promotions in a manner which facilitates understanding of an agency's efforts to provide fair and effective equal opportunity employment for minority group members, women and members of other groups who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies.
Per the request of Council Member Ossé, the NYC Independent Budget Office estimated the cost of expanding Fair Fares NYC to cover fare-free transit for New Yorkers who are aged 65 and older or who have disabilities, and whose income is less than 200% of the federal poverty level.
Budget Options are policy ideas that have the potential to create savings or new revenue for the City. Every year, IBO publishes an updated volume to help spark policy discussions throughout New York City.
The New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO) is excited to announce the release of its new 2024 Budget Options Volume. Budget Options are policy ideas that have the potential to create savings or new revenue for the City.
Annual fair and effective affirmative employment plan to provide equal employment opportunity for minority group members and women who are employed by, or who seek employment with, the agency
Did you know that Real Property Tax (RPT) is New York City’s largest source of tax revenue? Check out our recently released explainer and Real Property Tax Forecast to learn more!
Check out IBO’s newest analysis focusing on the fiscal impact of Street Vending. This analysis finds that lifting the caps on legal street vending would yield a positive fiscal impact, depending on how many vendors become permitted.
IBO’s study of enrollment losses during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic, offering a comprehensive analysis of traditional public schools and charter schools in New York City.
The new York City Independent Budget Office's study delves into these enrollment losses, offering: Interactive maps that visually portray enrollment declines in New York City schools by school district.
The New York City Independent Budget Office just released its City Fighting Homelessness & Eviction Prevention
Supplement (CityFHEPS) explainer! Learn more about the program's history, its challenges, and funding by reading our explainer today.
This report focuses on subsets of Program to Eliminate the Gap cuts which may substantially impact the life experiences of New Yorkers, referred to as “Human Impact PEGs”.
IBO produced a detailed explanation of its projections for future costs associated with asylum seekers, and how they differ from the projections in the 2024 November Plan.
IBO's testimony to the New York City Council Oversight hearing on immigrant students in New York City Public Schools, with a focus on English Language Learner status.
Around the country, policymakers and environmental advocates have been lobbying and pursing legislation that allows jurisdictions to address excessive stormwater through the enactment of stormwater fees. IBO examined the fiscal impact of a potential stormwater fee in New York City.
At the request of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, IBO analyzed City Council Schedule C funding levels in the past six years to assess allocations for food. The analysis provides information on trends in grants to food initiatives, food-adjacent initiatives, and all food-related initiatives.
A brief Explainer on Units of Appropriation, the most granular level of detail City Council approves in the budget resolutions. IBO also highlights the inherent tension between the Mayor and City Council over them.
A report on the agency's efforts during the previous quarter to implement the plan adopted pursuant to paragraph 19 (annual plan) of Section 815(a), including details of agency's efforts to implement equal employment practices, including statistical information regarding total employment, including provisional, seasonal, per-diem and part-time employees, new hiring and promotions in a manner which facilitates understanding of an agency's efforts to provide fair and effective equal opportunity employment for minority group members, women and members of other groups who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies.
Testimony at a City Council hearing on the 2023 Mayor’s Management Report and identify key indicators that speak to the City’s challenges to provide housing, cash and food assistance, and other services in a timely manner.
IBO has updated all education indicators including summary statistics on student enrollment, demographics, and academic performance, school-level teacher and principal characteristics, and building capacity and utilization in traditional public schools.
IBO has found the most recent budget initiative for government-funded nonprofits providing human service programs to New Yorkers will pay less than half of the cumulative raises provided to unionized City employees.
An Independent Budget Office (IBO) analysis evaluates the employment effects of the $30.3 billion in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans distributed to New York City employers in 2020 and 2021.
A NYCIBO analysis of NYC Schools teacher hiring and retention showed that city schools ended the last school year (2022-2023) with 2,500 fewer K-12 teachers than four years prior.
A brief Infographic focused on a less evident support for NYC's arts and culture sector—payments to cultural nonprofits made by a wide array of city agencies as a contracted vendor through the city’s procurement process to provide goods or services.
The IBO released an analysis of City payments to nonprofit cultural organizations that may be the first such accounting of municipal investment in the cultural sector. The report details $727 million in payments made from the Expense Budget in Fiscal Year 2022.
High expectations: if it can overcome initial growing pains, the NYC legal cannabis market could bring in $1.2 billion in taxable tales and $47 million in annual revenue for the city
Want to take a deeper dive into average daily spending by specific agencies? IBO has you covered. Download IBO’s new NYC Spending in a Day tool to select specific NYC agencies and types of expenditures to come up with your own cost to run NYC for a day.
With concerns about rent stabilized apartments sitting vacant making headlines, the New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO) today released its study of apartment vacancies using New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) data from 2017 through 2022.
To find out how many rent stabilized apartments are vacant, NYCIBO released its study of NYSHCR data from 2017-2022. On average, less than five percent of rent stabilized apartments were vacant, and of those, the majority were rented within a year.
A report on the agency's efforts during the previous quarter to implement the plan adopted pursuant to paragraph 19 (annual plan) of Section 815(a), including details of agency's efforts to implement equal employment practices, including statistical information regarding total employment, including provisional, seasonal, per-diem and part-time employees, new hiring and promotions in a manner which facilitates understanding of an agency's efforts to provide fair and effective equal opportunity employment for minority group members, women and members of other groups who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies.
IBO analyzed the impact of the state’s new reduced class size rules on NYC schools. We found it would require hiring of 17,700 teachers at a cost of at least $1.6 billion annually for full compliance
IBO's review of the tax break, under Local Law 18 of 2017, was released as NYC Council is about to consider MSG’s DCP application to renew its zoning special permit. It also coincides with a reignited debate on the future of the beleaguered & over-capacity Penn Station that lies below MSG.
A new IBO analysis shows that the last time spending for the Parks Department was close to one percent of the City budget—a baseline sought by advocates—was 1977. In recent years, Parks spending is less than 0.6 percent of the total budget.
The New York City Independent Budget Office released a new video series( it developed to enable students, parents, and advocates to navigate New York City public school budgets.
A report on the agency's efforts during the previous quarter to implement the plan adopted pursuant to paragraph 19 (annual plan) of Section 815(a), including details of agency's efforts to implement equal employment practices, including statistical information regarding total employment, including provisional, seasonal, per-diem and part-time employees, new hiring and promotions in a manner which facilitates understanding of an agency's efforts to provide fair and effective equal opportunity employment for minority group members, women and members of other groups who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies.
The Independent Budget Office examined Cultural Development Fund (CDF) awards made by the Department of Cultural Affairs for fiscal years 2019 through 2023 and identified award amounts by fiscal year and borough.
With thousands of asylum seekers arriving in New York City, an IBO report tracks the distribution of $26.7 million in Project Open Arms education funds and looks at NYC Schools language acquisition programs for children.
An Independent Budget Office analysis says that costs of assisting asylum seekers will be between $600 million and 1.7 billion less than the Executive Budget projection for fiscal years 2023 and 2024.
In this brief, IBO estimates the total cost of the city’s labor contracts under two scenarios that explore differences in contract terms and the timing of their ratification, as well as the impact of changes in the size of the city’s labor force.
IBO calculated how much the city is owed in unpaid balances. IBO examined three primary sources of unpaid balances: parking and camera-generated violations, lienable property charges, and penalties adjudicated by the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings that were incurred in CYs 2017-2022.
IBO has compiled a descriptive overview of the financing deals and public subsidies for Madison Square Garden and the three most recently constructed major league sports stadiums within New York City: Yankee Stadium, Citi Field, and Barclays Center.
IBO analysis of shows that the DOE requires additional city funding to continue programs funded with federal Covid aid, for Carter Cases, charter schools and more.
The Mayor’s Preliminary Budget proposes the elimination of nearly 300 vacant school safety agent positions. In this report, IBO explores these changes in budgeted and actual staffing.
In this report , IBO examines Department of Homeless Services (DHS) shelter spending from 2013 through 2022 to show how state and federal decisions, as well as shifts in homeless populations over time, have impacted the funding of the city’s shelters over the past decade.
Testimony focused on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s deficit relief as proposed in the New York State 2024 State Executive Budget and on the financing of the Penn Station Revitalization Plan
A report on the agency's efforts during the previous quarter to implement the plan adopted pursuant to paragraph 19 (annual plan) of Section 815(a), including details of agency's efforts to implement equal employment practices, including statistical information regarding total employment, including provisional, seasonal, per-diem and part-time employees, new hiring and promotions in a manner which facilitates understanding of an agency's efforts to provide fair and effective equal opportunity employment for minority group members, women and members of other groups who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies.
In this report, IBO explores the potential roadblocks to the Trust’s success, and its benefits and risks, as well as other operational reforms contained in NYCHA’s greater reform plan, A Blueprint for Change.
At the request of Council Member Chi Ossé, the IBO estimated the annual cost of introducing fare-free local bus service in New York City under three scenarios: waive bus fares for all riders, riders who are 65 or older or who have disabilities, and New Yorkers who are low income.
For each of IBO’s more than 100 budget options, including the new ones and many that have been recently updated, we outline key arguments for and against the proposals along with estimates of their potential to save or raise city funds.
IBO Assistant Director Sarita Subramanian's testimony on the city’s early childhood programs, focusing on funding for the city’s 3-K programs, as well as the pace of the city payments to contracted to 3-K and Pre-K providers.
IBO presents its Snapshot Report, which outlines our key findings on the local economy, projections of tax revenues & spending estimates under the Mayor’s Preliminary Budget
The New York City Independent Budget Office is pleased to announce that Louisa Chafee has been appointed director of the agency. Chafee brings more than two decades of leadership experience in both government and the non-profit sector to IBO.
On 1/26/23 the New York State Senate Standing Committee on Children & Families held a hearing on childcare in the state. IBO Assistant Director Sarita Subramanian submitted testimony on the city’s early childhood programs.
Testimony to a City Council hearing on changes to the city’s administrative code that would enable the city to implement its proposed Medicare Advantage.