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Housing
$60 billion, with Lisa Bova-Hiatt and Jamie Rubin
April 05, 2024
$60 billion is how much the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) estimates it should invest in its infrastructure over the next 5 years. NYCHA faces persistent challenges: recurring budget gaps, rising expenses, weakening rent collection, deteriorating physical conditions, and more. NYCHA's CEO Lisa Bova-Hiatt and Chair Jamie Rubin both spoke with CBC at a recent event to discuss the plans and strategies they've put in place to better manage the nation's largest public housing system.
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Housing
Conversation with NYCHA CEO Lisa Bova-Hiatt and NYCHA Chair Jamie Rubin
March 27, 2024
Lisa Bova-Hiatt is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the New York City Housing Authority, and Jamie Rubin is the Chair of the New York City Housing Authority.
Podcast episode
Education
$39.5 billion, with Chancellor David Banks and Emma Vadehra
March 05, 2024
$39.5 billion is how much NYC spends to educate our students each year. The New York City Public Schools has an enormous and challenging task: to educate and develop 900,000 students who come from a wide diversity of backgrounds and needs. And it’s important to ask: Are we getting the return we need on our dollars? How are our students doing? To answer this and other pressing questions is NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks and Deputy Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer Emma Vadehra.
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Taxes
151,700, with Maria Doulis
January 31, 2024
151,700 is the net loss of New York personal income tax filers in 2020 and 2021. Some of that is the result of the pandemic, but how much? With this episode, CBC is relaunching the podcast to return to a more focused discussion with policy leaders, and there is no better way to re-launch than with the podcast's founder: CBC alum Maria Doulis, Deputy New York State Comptroller for Budget and Policy Analysis. Join us as we explore one of the most difficult challenges facing the City and State—how to keep and attract more New Yorkers.
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Transportation
$1.5 trillion, with the MTA's Janno Lieber and Jamie Torres-Springer
December 19, 2023
$1.5 trillion is the total asset value of the MTA—all of the trains, buses, yards, and stations...all the stuff that moves New Yorkers every day, 24 hours a day. At a recent CBC event, MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber and President of Construction and Development Jamie Torres-Springer discussed congestion pricing, fare evasion, congestion pricing, state of good repair, the future of Penn Station, and more.
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Transportation
Conversation with the MTA's Janno Lieber and Jamie Torres-Springer
A CBC Event
December 13, 2023
MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber and MTA Construction & Development President Jamie Torres-Springer to discuss all matters concerning the MTA.
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Transportation
Statement on the MTA’s Twenty-Year Needs Assessment for 2025-2044
October 04, 2023
The MTA's Twenty-Year Needs Assessment for 2025-2044 (TYNA) importantly lays bare the transit system’s precarious state of repair.
Podcast episode
Housing
1 in 3, with Chief Housing Officer Jessica Katz
November 11, 2022
1 in 3 is the number of households in New York City that are severely rent burdened. That means nearly 600,000 households are spending more than half of their monthly income on rent, electricity, and heat. At a recent CBC Trustee event, Jessica Katz, NYC's Chief Housing Officer, discussed how the Adams administration is tackling NYC's housing needs and managing its housing agenda to ensure success.
Podcast episode
Housing
2 1/2, the Land Use Edition
October 04, 2022
2 1/2 is the average number of years it takes a private rezoning application to get approved in New York City, and that doesn't include the often lengthy informal pre-review negotiations. This is one of many findings in CBC's report "Improving New York City's Land Use Decision-Making Process," which can be found at cbcny.org. At a special panel discussion, Maria Torres-Springer, the Deputy Mayor for Economic and Workforce Development, delivered opening remarks on the Administration's efforts to tackle New York's housing challenges, followed by a policy panel steeped in experience with New York City's land use process.
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Housing
How New York Can Improve Its Land Use Decision-Making Process
A CBC Event
September 28, 2022
CBC convened key stakeholders to discuss how to improve the City's land use decision-making process.
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Transportation
Statement on the Empire State Development General Project Plan and Letter of Mutual Agreement with the City for the Penn Station Area Civic and Land Use Improvement Project
July 26, 2022
Catalyzing development in the Penn Station district and renovating the station itself should help New York’s competitiveness and enable future growth.
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Transportation
Statement on NYC Ferry Forward Plan
July 14, 2022
The Adams Administration plans to take some important, positive steps to improve the finances and transparency of NYC Ferry.
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Housing
CBC Urges Legislature to Pass a Well-Crafted Successor to 421-a and Create NYCHA's Preservation Trust
May 17, 2022
CBC calls on State lawmakers to support two priorities critical to improving the supply, affordability, and quality of New York City’s rental and public housing.
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State Budget
Statement on Economic Development Database and Film Tax Credit in the Fiscal Year 2023 Enacted Budget
April 08, 2022
For too long New York has been a leader in economic development spending, but not a leader in economic development program results.
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Taxes
Statement Regarding the New York State Joint Legislative Budget Hearing on Taxes
February 16, 2022
The enacted State budget should allow the business tax increase to sunset and should restrain spending to allow the personal income tax increase to sunset sooner or at least as scheduled.
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State Budget
Statement Regarding the New York State Joint Legislative Budget Hearing on Transportation
February 15, 2022
The Fiscal Year 2023 Executive Budget includes new and increased funding for State and local transportation infrastructure, including projects to improve the state of good repair of roads and bridges, redesign and restructure highways and bridges, and increase support for regional transportation authorities.
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Housing
Statement in Regard to the New York State Joint Legislative Budget Hearing on Housing
January 31, 2022
We are pleased that the Governor’s Fiscal Year 2023 Executive Budget included several proposals to encourage the production of more housing.
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Transportation
2026, with MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber
January 30, 2022
2026 is the year the MTA will likely have spent all of its one-time COVID-19 federal aid, and when the MTA will have to address the estimated $2.5 billion annual structural operating deficit which that aid is now covering. At an event with CBC Trustees, MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber and President Andrew Rein sat down for a fireside chat to discuss this and a range of other issues including ridership and the ridership experience, the newly proposed Interborough Express and other infrastructure and state of good repair needs, and how labor and management collaboration is critical to closing the operating budget gaps.
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Transportation
Conversation with MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber
A CBC Event
January 14, 2022
John (“Janno”) Lieber was appointed Acting Chair and CEO of the MTA in July 2021.
Podcast episode
Education
270,00, with Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez
April 29, 2021
270,000—the number of two-year, four-year, and graduate degree seeking students enrolled in the City University of New York (CUNY). For generations CUNY has been an engine of economic mobility. With New York City sitting at the inflection point between the pandemic-driven recession and its recovery, CUNY will play a key role in preparing students and workers for, and linking them to, new opportunities in a changing economy. CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez joined the podcast to discuss the pandemic's impact on CUNY, his efforts to partner with the private sector to open career opportunities for students and to bolster CUNY's finances, and how City, State, and federal budget decisions and proposals may stabilize CUNY in the future.