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Why Is the City Rethinking How Budgets Are Developed for Senior Centers?

Date Published:: 2018-09-17
Description:: For years, some providers of city-funded social services have questioned disparities in the funding of their programs, with wide differences in how much support some groups receive for each participant despite offering a similar set of services.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Aged
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Who Pays for the Rising Number of State Technical Parole Violators in NYC Jails?

Date Published:: 2019-08-27
Description:: How much of the jail population is comprised of technical parole violators and what is the cost to the city for keeping them jailed?
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Correction
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Who Are the Main Sources for Reports of Alleged Child Abuse and Maltreatment in New York City?

Date Published:: 2018-10-18
Description:: IBO has examined the shares of reports to the hotline over several years that came from mandated reporters versus those that came from the general public, such as relatives, neighbors, or anonymous callers.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Children
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Which Public School Programs for English Language Learners Are Growing and Where?

Date Published:: 2019-08-06
Description:: With a growing number of English language learners and an expanding set of programs to assist them, IBO looked at shifts in placements at 1,512 traditional public schools over the four years from 2014-2015 through 2017-2018.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Education
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Which Jobs Have Driven Staffing Increases at the City’s Department of Education Over the Last 10 Years?

Date Published:: 2017-11-21
Description:: As of June, the Department of Education had 131,199 full-time employees. More than 119,000 served in jobs under the broad classification of pedagogues, which includes roles such as principals, assistant principals, teachers, and teaching assistants also known as paraprofessionals.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Education
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Which High Schools Did High-Scoring Middle School Students Attend Last Year?

Date Published:: 2019-06-04
Description:: Many of the city’s highest-scoring students will likely attend one of the city’s nine specialized high schools. But many high-scorers—including some offered admission to a specialized high school—will attend other schools.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Education
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Where Did the City’s Nearly $13 Billion in Pension Payments Go in 2017?

Date Published:: 2018-04-23
Description:: Last year NYC's five pension systems for municipal employees paid $12.9 billion in benefits to more than 332,000 retirees or their beneficiaries. While many retired city workers remain in the five boroughs, many others collect their pension checks in states and counties all around the country.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Pensions
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

When Students of Different Ethnicities Are Suspended For the Same Infraction Is the Average Length of Their Suspension the Same?

Date Published:: 2018-10-11
Description:: The number of students in grades 6 through 12 suspended for breaking school rules has continued to decline in recent years as the City Council and the de Blasio Administration have fostered policies that promote alternatives to keeping students out of the classroom.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Education
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

What’s the Rent? A Snapshot of the Rents for New Affordable Housing in New York City

Date Published:: 2019-08-15
Description:: IBO reviewed 131 NYC Housing Connect listings for 3,605 new affordable apartments over a recent six-month period, surveying the distribution of rents by income group and by apartment size, as well as rent-to-income ratios.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Housing
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

What Services Are Provided by New York City’s Senior Centers?

Date Published:: 2018-04-24
Description:: The New York City Department for the Aging spent about $110 million in fiscal year 2017 to support programs at nearly 250 senior centers throughout the city.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Aged
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Three City Pension Funds Are Ready to Divest From Fossil Fuel Stocks. How Much Do They Own?

Date Published:: 2019-07-24
Description:: How much have the three pension funds invested in oil, gas, and other fossil fuel companies? How many shares do they own and what is the value of these holdings? IBO has compiled the numbers.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Pensions
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Thousands of NYC Property Owners Challenge Their Tax Assessments Every Year. How Much Do They Save?

Date Published:: 2019-06-19
Description:: IBO has looked at assessment appeals brought to the Tax Commission over the years 2013-2017 and summarized the results by number of appeals, property tax reductions, property types, and the borough where the properties are located.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Taxation
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

There’s a Call Reporting a Crime in Progress. How Long Does It Take for the Police to Send a Car in Your Precinct?

Date Published:: 2019-05-09
Description:: Although required under a 1991 law, the city does not publish data by precinct that tells New Yorkers how long it takes the police department to respond to a 911 call—from the initial call to the time officers arrive at the scene.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Police
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Since the Expansion of Pre-K, Do More Students Move on to Traditional Public and Charter Schools for Kindergarten and First Grade?

Date Published:: 2017-08-21
Description:: Mayor de Blasio launched an expansion of full-day prekindergarten in the 2014-2015 school year, promising access to every 4-year old by 2015-2016.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Education
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Sentenced to Time in a City Jail: For What Offenses and How Long?

Date Published:: 2017-09-14
Description:: On a typical day in fiscal year 2016, there were about 9,700 people in New York City jails: roughly 7,700 pretrial detainees, 1,200 sentenced to serve time in city jails, and 800 sentenced to terms in state prisons but who remained in city custody.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Correction
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

School Aid Shortfall: State Aid for New York City Schools Falls, and Could Fall Further

Date Published:: 2020-06-04
Description:: FOCUS ON HE EXECUTIVE BUDGET: State aid for New York City schools has been cut in the budget recently passed in Albany, and may fall further as the year continues.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Budget and Finance and Education
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Private-Sector Employment & Wage Growth in New York City: Where Are the Jobs?

Date Published:: 2019-06-25
Description:: Despite two intervening recessions, from 2000 through 2017 New York City added over 650,000 private-sector jobs, an increase of about 20 percent. Wage growth, however, has been less robust.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Employment
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Of the More Than 58,000 Admissions to City Jails Last Year, How Many Inmates Had Been There Before?

Date Published:: 2018-05-29
Description:: Last fiscal year, there were more than 58,000 admissions to the city’s jails. Most of these admissions were of inmates who had previously been in city custody.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Correction
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

New Yorkers Receiving Cash Assistance: A Nearly 60-Year Low?

Date Published:: 2019-08-20
Description:: In June 2019, the number of city residents receiving cash assistance hit a 56-year low. We have tracked the rise and fall of cash assistance recipients since 1960.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Poverty
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Neighborhood Senior Centers, Innovative Senior Centers, and Social Clubs: What Is the Difference?

Date Published:: 2019-10-03
Description:: What are the similarities and differences among these three types of senior programs and do average program and personnel costs differ? We compared using data from the Department for the Aging, which contracts with providers to operate the senior programs.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Aged
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Morning Malaise: How Much Extra Time Is Spent Waiting for the Subway on Your Line?

Date Published:: 2017-10-25
Description:: As part of our recent report on the cost of subway disruptions to riders and the city, which IBO produced at the request of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, we needed to estimate how much time subway commuters lose to delays.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Transportation
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Mayor’s Proposed Budget Seeks to Provide the Bronx With More Rapid EMS Response. Is Queens Even More in Need?

Date Published:: 2019-06-14
Description:: The Independent Budget Office compares paramedic response times in each of the New York City's boroughs.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Emergencies
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Is the Shift of Medicaid Enrollment into Managed Care Almost Complete?

Date Published:: 2018-11-08
Description:: Over the past two decades, the state has been moving recipients into managed care plans with the goals of providing better health care and reducing costs.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Health
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Is the New York City Housing Authority’s Participation in Federal Public Housing Repair Programs Lagging?

Date Published:: 2018-08-07
Description:: Following cutbacks in traditional federal aid for repairing or replacing public housing, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development created new programs that rely on leveraging private dollars to help address the needs of deteriorating housing developments nationwide.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Housing
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Is New York City Shouldering a Rising Share of Homeless Shelter Costs?

Date Published:: 2018-02-21
Description:: With the rising number of homeless families and individuals in the city’s shelter system there has been a related rise in the costs of running the shelters.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Homeless Persons
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

How Much Potential Revenue Are New Yorkers Wasting by Trashing Organics?

Date Published:: 2019-02-25
Description:: The Department of Sanitation recently halted the expansion of its voluntary residential organics collection program. Low participation rates in neighborhoods receiving the service have kept the cost per ton collected high.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Refuse and Refuse Disposal
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

How Much More Would It Have Cost to Fully Fund Fair Student Funding for the City’s Schools Last Year?

Date Published:: 2018-10-24
Description:: The new city funds announced in April bring the Fair Student Funding total allocated to school budgets up to $6.2 billion for the current school year, an increase of 3.4 percent.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Education
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

How Much Income Support Aid Could Low-Income New Yorkers Lose Under President Trump’s Budget Proposal?

Date Published:: 2017-08-16
Description:: Among the many spending reductions included in President Trump’s proposed 2018 budget are cuts to federal aid for lowincome individuals and families, including cash assistance, food stamps, and Supplemental Security Income.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Poverty
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

How Much Funding Is Allocated to the Community Schools Program and for Which Services?

Date Published:: 2018-12-19
Description:: One of Mayor de Blasio’s earliest education initiatives sought to establish 100 “community schools” that provide a mix of academic and other supports to students and their families through partnerships with community-based organizations. By August 2018 there were more than 200 community schools.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Education
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

How Much Does Residence Limit the Types of New York City Traditional Public Schools That People Choose?

Date Published:: 2017-05-02
Description:: Efforts to rezone elementary schools to increase socioeconomic integration and ease overcrowding can spark vigorous debate in the affected communities. But admissions methods vary across the 32 school districts, and even among individual schools within districts.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Education
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

How Many Students Either Exit or Transfer Within the NYC School System in a Single Year?

Date Published:: 2017-10-02
Description:: Each school year there is considerable movement of students who transfer from one school to another or out of the city’s public school system altogether.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Education
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

How Many Rent-Stabilized Apartments Lose Preferential Rents From Year to Year and Does It Affect Tenant Turnover?

Date Published:: 2019-05-06
Description:: IBO has analyzed data for apartments registered with preferential rents from 2010 through 2017 to quantify their prevalence and their relationship to tenant stability.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Rent Stabilization Law and Rent Control
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

How Many Apartments in the City’s Public Housing Developments Are Underoccupied?

Date Published:: 2017-12-02
Description:: The New York City Housing Authority provides affordable housing in its developments to roughly 400,000 city residents in 176,066 apartments.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Housing
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

How Have New Yorkers Changed the Ways They Use the City’s Libraries in Recent Years?

Date Published:: 2016-11-15
Description:: The ways New Yorkers use their local public libraries has changed. Branch libraries in all three systems have become broader community resources rather than repositories of books and information.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Libraries
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

How Has the Mix of Taxes Collected by New York City Changed Over the Years?

Date Published:: 2018-08-23
Description:: New York City collects a mix of taxes that looks much more like those of a state than the typical U.S. city. Today the city relies on personal income taxes, business income taxes, taxes related to real estate transactions.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Taxation
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

How Does the Time Spent in Local Jails Vary by County for Inmates Ultimately Destined for New York State Prison?

Date Published:: 2018-12-05
Description:: The amount of time an individual must spend in state prison is reduced by the period of time spent in a local jail because they were denied bail or unable to post bail while awaiting trial and then as their case is heard in court.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Correction
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

How Does the City Collect Parking Fines from Delivery Companies and Other Businesses?

Date Published:: 2019-02-05
Description:: To reduce the burden on the city’s traffic courts the city provides an incentive to businesses that agree not to dispute parking violations.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Budget and Finance
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

How Does Sick Leave Usage Vary Across the City’s Workforce?

Date Published:: 2016-10-25
Description:: The use of sick leave by municipal employees varies widely among agencies. Uniformed employees in the fire, correction, and sanitation departments tend to use sick leave at higher rates than other city workers.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Employment
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Have Changes to a Key City Job-Training Program for Cash Assistance Recipients Affected the Number of Placements?

Date Published:: 2018-11-13
Description:: In April 2017 the city’s Human Resources Administration implemented new employment services contracts for cash assistance recipients who are able to work.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Public Welfare
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Has the Number of Dues Paying City Union Members Changed Since the Janus Ruling?

Date Published:: 2019-01-14
Description:: An early look, examining the last three and a half years of city employee paycheck deductions for union dues, including the six months following the Janus decision.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Labor and Employment
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Has the Decline in the Number of Inmates From the City Led to the Drop in the State Prison Population?

Date Published:: 2017-08-03
Description:: The number of inmates in New York State prisons reached a peak of over 71,000 as the 1990s turned to the 2000s, and then fell to 51,743 in January 2016.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Correction
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Does It Take the Court System Longer in New York City to Process Indicted Felony Cases Than Elsewhere in the State?

Date Published:: 2019-04-10
Description:: Over three-quarters of the roughly 8,000 inmates currently held in city jails are categorized as detainees, meaning their cases have not yet been settled.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Correction
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Did Incumbents or Their Challengers Benefit More From The City’s Campaign Finance System in 2017?

Date Published:: 2018-10-29
Description:: In 2017 the Campaign Finance Board provided candidates running for municipal offices ranging from the Mayor to City Council with a combined $17.7 million in public funds to support their campaigns.Candidates who meet the requirements are eligible to receive matching funds. every $
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Elections and Voting
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Could City Employees Provide a Major Source of Enrollees for MetroPlus Gold?

Date Published:: 2018-07-02
Description:: As part of the effort to improve its fiscal health, New York City Health + Hospitals is counting on increased enrollment in its health insurance sudsidiary, MetroPlus.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Health
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

As the Number of Students Living in Shelters Has Grown, Has The Increase Been Uniform Among Schools Across the City?

Date Published:: 2017-04-24
Description:: The number of students in the city’s public schools who lived for some part of the school year in New York’s homeless shelters during school year 2015-2016 rose by more than 4,000, or 15 percent, over the preceding year to nearly 33,000.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Education and Homeless Persons
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Are the Number of Health Department Initial Inspections for Rats on the Rise?

Date Published:: 2019-09-18
Description:: Have inspections for rats by the health department’s Bureau of Veterinary and Pest Control Services been increasing? We track changes in the number of initial inspections citywide and by borough.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Housing and Pests
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Are Some Students With Disabilities More Likely to Receive a Recommendation for a Paraprofessional?

Date Published:: 2018-03-15
Description:: Whether students with disabilities were recommended a paraprofessional differed based on the type of disability classification and the borough where the student attended school.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Education
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Are New York City’s Public Hospitals Becoming the Main Provider of Inpatient Services for the Mentally Ill?

Date Published:: 2017-07-26
Description:: The number of hospitalizations at public and voluntary hospitals in New York City has been declining for some time, falling from 1.3 million hospitalizations in 2009 to 1.1 million in 2014.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Hospitals and Mental Health
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Are NYC Health + Hospitals Facilities Located in Community Districts With the Highest Shares of Uninsured New Yorkers?

Date Published:: 2019-07-01
Description:: Are the city’s more than 70 public hospitals and clinics located in neighborhoods with heavy concentrations of the uninsured? IBO has mapped the location of public hospital facilities and the share of uninsured in the city’s 59 community districts.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Hospitals
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

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