This guide will help any interested New Yorker understand and participate in the city's budget process. It outlines the components of the city's budget, the timelines and processes for adopting it, and provides an overview of how the city raises revenues and how those revenues get spent. Guidance on where to find budget documents and a contact list of key players in the budget process will help readers figure out where to find answers to budget questions.
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.
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.
REPORT: IBO provides an update on costs related to the development of Hudson Yards. Our report also examines the recent refinancing of much of the city-subsidized debt for the extension of the No. 7 line along with some other work to foster commercial and residential construction on the Far West Side.
REPORT: IBO provides an update on costs related to the development of Hudson Yards. Our report also examines the recent refinancing of much of the city-subsidized debt for the extension of the No. 7 line along with some other work to foster commercial and residential construction on the Far West Side.
REPORT: The number of children in the city's subsidized child care programs has been shrinking in recent years with the implementation of Early Learn and the increased availability of pre-k for 4-year-olds and after-school programs for school-age children that offer alternatives to traditional child care. We look at the changes over the past five years-and with an eye towards new initiatives such as 3-K for All that could present further challenges to the traditional child care programs.
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.
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.
Using an annual sample of 770,000 personal income tax returns, IBO explored the distribution of income among New York City residents during the years 2006 through 2014.
The city’s diminishing stock of rent-stabilized apartments is highly sought after by prospective tenants because these regulated units often rent at below-market rates and offer a variety of tenant protections including the right to lease renewal.