The New York City Housing Authority regularly passes its five-year operating budget with funding gaps, which in last year’s plan exceeded $300 million in most years. IBO examines changes in NYCHA’s budget, including the subsidies the city provides to NYCHA, and looks at challenges ahead.
To calculate a commercial property’s value for tax purposes, the city uses what is known as a “capitalized income approach.” IBO examines this method, focusing on a key part of the calculation and investigates how overestimation of these rates leads to inequitable property assessments.
Much has been discussed about growth in city spending for Carter Cases—when students with disabilities are enrolled in private schools & parents seek tuition payment. In FY22, it topped $900M. We examine Carter Case spending & what the costs include.
Through NYC's “Schoolyards to Playgrounds” program, the public can access some school playgrounds & yards during non-school hours. At the request of CM Gale Brewer, IBO examined how many school buildings are currently participating in the program & the cost to add those that aren't.
IBO examines the demographic differences at each step of the gifted admissions process when the test was still in place—for students entering kindergarten in the 2018-2019 school year.
Over the past few months IBO participated as a non-voting observer on a task force to provide independent information and analysis. As part of that process, IBO simulated the fiscal impact of the task force’s top five recommendations. This presentation provides the results of those simulations.
IBO’s testimony provides an update on how much the city has claimed of these funds through the end of fiscal year 2022, how much is currently budgeted for spending, and how much remains to be added to the city’s budget in upcoming financial plans.
In this brief, IBO examines this operating support and identifies risks that the city’s public hospital system is facing that may make city subsidies in the future even more critical.
IBO was asked to analyze the costs NYC will incur for services to the city's newly arrived asylum seekers. Based on early Nov. numbers, IBO estimates the city will spend at least $596 million over a year on services such as shelter, public education, & some health-related costs, among others.
Acting Director George Sweeting testifies at a Council hearing on recommendations from the Advisory Commission on Property Tax Reform. While its recs. could help eliminate some of the most glaring problems, significant disparities were largely unexamined.
As the MTA prepares to release its Nov. '22 financial plan, in a series of charts and graphs, IBO explores how ridership and user-revenues have recovered for each MTA service since March 2020 and whether the authority to is likely to meet its current 2022 fare and toll revenue goals.
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 a series of charts and graphs IBO presents some key findings from the data, in particular, how in 2020—the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic—total income reported by full-year New York City residents increased compared with 2019., along with 2020 PIT tables.
This testimony (12/8/22) outlines IBO’s latest economic forecast and tax revenue projections, our current spending estimates for the city, and provides preview of our fiscal outlook for the coming year.
IBO presents its Fiscal Outlook Report for Fiscal Years 2024 and 2025 containing our latest economic forecast, tax revenue projections and spending estimates.
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.
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.
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.