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David R. Jones

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Sep 17, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · David R. Jones, Esq., President and CEO of the Community Service Society of New York

    URBAN AGENDA: To Close the Wealth Gap, Mayor Mamdani Must Look Past Tax Hikes, Rent Freezes (opens the original)

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    An alarming new report finds income inequity in New York City has accelerated as the wealthy elite have built immense fortunes through investments, while most everyday workers struggle to survive on a paycheck. The report by Mark Levine, the city’s comptroller, found that 60 percent of the city’s wealth was concentrated in only 10 percent of the population, intensifying the city’s affordability crisis. This disparity plays out along racial lines. Last year, the median income for Black New Yorker

  2. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · David R. Jones, Esq., President and CEO of the Community Service Society of New York

    URBAN AGENDA: New York’s Opportunity to Boost Community Ownership (opens the original)

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    Wherever in New York City you live, I bet you can picture an apartment building that fits one of these two descriptions: a multi-family rental property that has passed from absentee landlord to absentee landlord, falling deeper into disrepair as its tenants suffer through cold winters, broken elevators, and leaky roofs; or, a once-affordable development where the subsidies expired and the building was sold to a new landlord as market-rate rentals, only for a great many long-term tenants to be di

  3. Article · Jul 23, 2026 · David R. Jones, Esq., President and CEO of the Community Service Society of New York

    URBAN AGENDA: Specialized High Schools Admissions Rigged Against Students of Color (opens the original)

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    Only three Black students were among the 777 offered admission this fall to Stuyvesant High School. Just one was among the 300 offered admission to by Staten Island Tech. Overall, this year Black students received 3.5 percent of the 4,023 acceptance letters to specialized high schools, and Latino students received 6.5 percent. By contrast, Asian students were given more than half of all offers, followed by white students with 23 percent, school figures show. So few Black and brown kids in the ha

  4. Article · Jul 9, 2026 · David R. Jones, Esq., President and CEO of the Community Service Society of New York

    URBAN AGENDA: Rent Stabilized Tenants Won a Much-Deserved Break (opens the original)

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    It’s not uncommon to see hundreds of New York City tenants screaming at a Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) vote. In fact, it happens every single year. What is uncommon, however, is for them to be shouting for joy instead of in anger. On June 25th, for the first time since the de Blasio administration, the RGB voted to freeze the rent for New York City’s roughly one million rent-stabilized apartments. And for the first time ever, the board approved a rent freeze for not just one-year lease renewals,

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