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Press Releases

December 23rd, 2025

Joint Statement By David R. Jones and Laura Kavanagh on Mayor-Elect Mamdani’s Choice to Lead FDNY

December 17th, 2025

New CSS Report Finds New Yorkers of All Income Levels Are Struggling with Financial Precarity

December 10th, 2025

New CSS Report Identifies Barriers to Student Loan Repayment and Offers Solutions

November 24th, 2025

CSS Represented on Mayor-Elect Mamdani’s Transition Committees

November 21st, 2025

CSS Applauds Governor and State Legislature for Banning Inhaler Cost-Sharing

November 5th, 2025

Community Service Society Congratulates Zohran Mamdani on His Historic Victory

October 22nd, 2025

New CSS Report Explores the Social Housing Finance Strategy Growing across the Country and Models the Approach for NYC

October 8th, 2025

CSS Report Documents How New York Dramatically Cut Patients’ Medical Debt Burden

August 6th, 2025

New CSS Report Recommends Leveraging Community Based Enrollment Partners to Stem Coverage Losses

July 10th, 2025

Statement By CSS President and CEO David R. Jones on State Appellate Division Ruling on CityFHEPS Reform Laws

June 30th, 2025

CSS Applauds MCCAP Expansion in FY2026 NYC Budget

May 16th, 2025

Community Service Society Statement on Proposed Medicaid Budget Cuts

April 10th, 2025

RGB Reports Make the Case for a Rent Freeze

March 31st, 2025

New Report: New York’s Unfair Property Tax System on its 50th Birthday

March 27th, 2025

First RGB Report of 2025 Shows Landlords’ Incomes Rise While Tenants Struggle

March 19th, 2025

CSS and Altarum Release New Statewide Healthcare Affordability Survey

March 5th, 2025

CSS Joins Anti-Poverty Rally That Brings Hundreds to the State Capitol

February 26th, 2025

Statement by CSS President and CEO David R. Jones on City’s “Fair Fares” Program

February 24th, 2025

New CSS Report: New York’s Unaffordable Health Care System

February 21st, 2025

CSS Applauds Governor Hochul for Prioritizing Student Loan Borrowers in Executive Budget

February 3rd, 2025

New York and the Nation Benefits From the CFPB’s Ongoing Role in Consumer Protection

January 15th, 2025

CSS’s Statement on Governor Hochul’s `State of the State’

December 6th, 2024

Community Service Society Announces New Vice President, Rachel Swaner

November 19th, 2024

New Urban Institute Report on True Cost of Economic Security in America Finds More Than Half of All People in U.S. Lack Economic Security

November 13th, 2024

CSS Commends New York City Council for Passing “the FARE Act”

November 7th, 2024

Lessons Learned from This Year’s Presidential Election

October 17th, 2024

New CSS Report: Financial Security Worsening Among New Yorkers Across Income, Gender and Race

August 8th, 2024

Corporate Landlords Are Finding New Ways to Discriminate Against Voucher Holders To Evade Enforcement

August 2nd, 2024

State Supreme Court Ruling Puts More Vulnerable New Yorkers at Risk of Homelessness and Eviction

July 26th, 2024

CSS Report Exposes Worsening Conditions for all Low-Income Renters in NYC and Conducts the First Citywide RAD/PACT Survey

July 25th, 2024

New CSS Report finds New Yorkers with Student Debt Face Unrelenting Hardships Despite the Promise of Upward Mobility

July 23rd, 2024

CSS Report Examines Local Outreach Methods to Increase Health Insurance Enrollment

July 1st, 2024

CSS Statement on FY 2025 City Budget

June 28th, 2024

CSS Analysis: City’s Proposed Expansion of Fair Fares Will Open Up Program to Nearly 200,000 Additional Working-Age New Yorkers

June 27th, 2024

New CSS Report: “A Call to Action,” Highlights Persistent Hardships As the Bronx Recovers Slower Than the City Overall

June 18th, 2024

Statement by CSS President and CEO David R. Jones on RGB Approval of Rent Increases

June 6th, 2024

Statement by CSS President and CEO David R. Jones on Congestion Pricing

June 4th, 2024

New National Poll: Economic Hardships of Millions of Middle-Class Americans Go Unseen, Most Believe They Will Continue to Struggle Throughout Their Lives

May 28th, 2024

Community Service Society’s Education Debt Consumer Assistance Program Receives Lumina Foundation Grant to Help Tackle Student Debt Crisis

May 28th, 2024

CSS Report Highlights Practice of State-Run Hospitals Suing Patients Likely Eligible for Hospital Financial Assistance

May 7th, 2024

New CSS Report Offers First Analysis of “AMI” and Its Impact on Affordable Housing Policy

April 22nd, 2024

CSS Statement on FY 2025 State Budget

April 16th, 2024

Statement: Housing Plan Falls Short of What Tenants and Homeless New Yorkers Need

March 14th, 2024

CSS Report: New Yorkers Struggle to Afford Mass Transit; Expanding Fair Fares Can Help

March 1st, 2024

Loan Servicer Revoking Forgiveness Puts New York’s Student Loan Borrowers at Risk: Servicers Must Be Held Accountable for Their Mistakes

January 23rd, 2024

Statement: Relief Coming for New Yorkers Struggling with Medical Debt

January 9th, 2024

Governor’s “State of the State” Highlights Plans to Further Tackle Medical Debt

January 2nd, 2024

CSS Applauds Governor Hochul for Making Consumer Protection and Affordability a Priority in 2024

December 14th, 2023

Affordable Housing and Access to Healthcare are top Concerns of NYC Residents, New CSS Report Finds

December 13th, 2023

Advocates and Patients Come Together to Applaud the Governor at Bill Signing Ceremony for the Fair Medical Debt Reporting Act (S4907a/A6275a)

November 22nd, 2023

CSS Statement on Mayor’s Budget Cuts

November 15th, 2023

New CSS Report Paints Bleak Picture of Government-Built Public Housing

October 12th, 2023

Rolling Back the `Right to Shelter’ is Not the Solution to the Current Homelessness Crisis

October 5th, 2023

CSS Commends New York City Council for Passing Intro 78

October 5th, 2023

As City Expands Low-Income Transit Discount, Riders, TWU, MTA, Advocates Rally Urging Mayor To Offer “Fair Fares’ To New Yorkers Earning Up To 200% Of Federal Poverty Line

October 2nd, 2023

Nicholas A. Gravante, Jr. Appointed Honorary Life Trustee of the Community Service Society of New York

July 27th, 2023

Reversing a Decade of Positive Trends

July 13th, 2023

State Lawmakers Hail New Report Showing Amount and Disparities of Medical Debt in New York State

July 12th, 2023

Ahead of Public Hearing, Legal Aid and Community Service Society Raise Serious Concerns About NYCHA’s Plan to Demolish all Apartments at FEC and Potential for Permanent Displacement of Families

June 30th, 2023

SCOTUS Decision Underscores Need for Student Loan Debt Consumer Assistance Programs Nationwide

June 30th, 2023

Statement by CSS President and CEO David R. Jones on Adams Administration Providing Free MetroCards to SYEP Participants

June 21st, 2023

The Fair Medical Debt Reporting Act: Removing Medical Debt from Credit Report Passes the Assembly

June 9th, 2023

CSS Applauds Passage of Clean Slate Act in the State Legislature

May 25th, 2023

CSS Applauds City Council for Taking Action to Avert Deeper Homelessness Crisis

May 24th, 2023

CBOs Rally at City Hall Park to Urge City Council to Protect Low-Income New Yorkers from Losing Healthcare Coverage Through the MCCAP Initiative

May 18th, 2023

CSS Report: Black Male NYCHA Residents More Likely To Be Unemployed than Any Other Group

May 17th, 2023

Fair and Just: CSS Statement on MTA’s Blue Ribbon Panel Report on Fare Evasion

May 2nd, 2023

Some Consumer Wins in the State Budget, But No Relief for New Yorkers Facing Housing Insecurity, Inability to Access Health Care Because of their Immigration Status, and Reentry Barriers

April 27th, 2023

Food Insecurity is a Persistent and Pervasive Problem in New York City, New CSS Report Finds

April 20th, 2023

“No, the Rent Guidelines Board Is Not Considering Raising Rents by 16%”

April 18th, 2023

CSS Brief Highlights Need for Fairer Financial Assistance in New York Hospitals

April 3rd, 2023

Joint Statement: Betsy Plum of Riders Alliance and David Jones of CSS Applaud City Council Budget Response for Including Funding for Fair Fares Expansion

March 30th, 2023

CSS Applauds Mayor Adams for Advocating for Immigrant Coverage in State Budget

March 30th, 2023

Statement on Rent Guidelines Board Hearing

March 27th, 2023

ICYMI: Eight in Ten New Yorkers Support Health Coverage for All New Yorkers

March 23rd, 2023

Advocates Send Letter Urging New York Leads to Include Crucial Patient Protections in State Budget

February 2nd, 2023

CSS Applauds Governor for Funding Vital Consumer Assistance Programs in Executive Budget

January 26th, 2023

CSS Brief: 225,000 Additional New Yorkers at Risk of Eviction

January 11th, 2023

CSS Applauds the Governor for Recognizing Medical Debt in Her `State of the State’

January 10th, 2023

CSS Brief Examines Impact of 2022 Rent Hikes on Low-Income Tenants

December 27th, 2022

CSS Applauds Governor for Signing Bill Banning Hidden Facilities Fees by Medical Providers

November 23rd, 2022

CSS Applauds Governor for Signing Critical Medical Debt Protection into Law

November 1st, 2022

CSS Report: Putting New York On A Path to Social Housing Transformation

October 7th, 2022

Ten Community-Based Organizations from Across the State Join EDCAP Network

August 24th, 2022

EDCAP is Ready to Help New Yorkers Take Advantage of President’s Student Debt Relief Plan

August 24th, 2022

CSS Applauds President’s Student Debt Relief Plan

August 18th, 2022

New CSS Report Documents Impacts of Student Loan Debt Across Age, Income and Race/Ethnicity

August 16th, 2022

ADVOCATES SEND LETTER OF SUPPORT URGING CONGRESS TO PASS NEW BILL TO HELP STUDENT-BORROWERS

July 20th, 2022

CSS Report Highlights Practice of Nonprofit Hospitals Garnishing Patient Wages

June 24th, 2022

SCOTUS Ruling Overturning Roe Will Harm Low-income Women

June 22nd, 2022

Rent Hike Will Have Outsized Impact on Low-Income New Yorkers

June 8th, 2022

ABB/CSS Report: Pandemic Caused Disproportionate Economic Harm to Low-income Women in Workforce

June 1st, 2022

Statement: The Preservation Trust is Our Best Chance to Preserve Public Housing

May 18th, 2022

CSS Thanks New York State Lawmakers for Protecting Patients from Mounting Medical Debt

May 10th, 2022

CSS Thanks New York State Lawmakers for Protecting Patients’ Homes and Wages from Predatory Medical Collection Actions

May 9th, 2022

Hospitals Must Stop Putting Liens on Patients’ Homes and Garnishing Their Wages

May 9th, 2022

Good Cause Won’t Hurt Housing Supply in New York, New Report Finds

May 2nd, 2022

CSS Report recommends expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit to ensure an equitable and inclusive recovery

April 11th, 2022

State Budget Funds Important Investments in Health Coverage, Consumer Assistance Programs and Child Care, But Serious Issues Remain

March 29th, 2022

“Affordable New York” Has Failed to Make New York Affordable, New CSS Report Finds

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