City Hall, NY – Today, the New York City Council released Administrative Challenges with CityFHEPS and Solutions to Streamline Access to Vouchers, a report analyzing the common operational roadblocks and inefficiencies in the City’s administration of the CityFHEPS housing assistance voucher program. The report identifies solutions that the Department of Social Services (DSS) can administratively implement to improve the process and reduce unnecessary delays for applicants, property owners, and agency staff.

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As longtime supporter of PB, Speaker Adams has funded upgrades and renovations at local schools, libraries, and parks in District 28

Queens, NY – Through the New York City Council’s Participatory Budgeting (PB) process, Speaker Adrienne Adams has allocated nearly $6.5 million and funded over 30 capital projects to improve local schools, libraries, parks, and other public spaces in Council District 28.

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Today, New York State Supreme Court Judge Mary Rosado preserved a temporary restraining order (TRO) after hearing arguments for a preliminary injunction to further halt Mayor Eric Adams’ administration from implementing Executive Order 50 that would facilitate Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to establish a center on Rikers Island. This follows a previously issued interim Temporary Restraining Order on April 21 prohibiting the execution and negotiation of any Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) related to the executive order.

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Executive Budget added some funding for priorities that Council urged, but other key programs to make city safer and support New Yorkers remain underfunded

City Hall, NY – At today’s final City Council Executive Budget hearing by the Committee on Finance, the Council identified gaps in funding for several key agencies and programs within the Mayor’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Executive Budget.

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City Hall, NY – Today, Speaker Adrienne Adams and the New York City Council announced the winning proposals for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Participatory Budgeting cycle. During the voting period, which took place from March 29 through April 6, more than 93,000 New Yorkers voted to allocate $30 million in capital funding for local improvements to schools, parks, libraries, and other public spaces across 24 Council Districts in New York City.

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City Hall, NY – Today, Speaker Adrienne Adams delivered opening remarks at the Council’s Committee on Finance hearing to examine the Mayor’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Executive Budget. Today’s hearing concludes the Council’s series of FY 2026 Executive Budget hearings, where respective Committees reviewed agency budgets and received testimony from agency leadership and the public.

Below are the Speaker’s full remarks as prepared for delivery:

Good afternoon.

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City anticipated to see moderately increased revenues, even as slower economic growth is expected due to greater uncertainty from federal economic and tariff policies that elevated consumer price pressures, and paused interest rate reductions

City Hall, NY – Ahead of the New York City Council’s final hearing on the Mayor’s Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) Executive Budget with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Council released its May 2025 Economic and Tax Revenue Forecast that estimates the City will collect $1.7 billion more in tax revenues for Fiscal Years (FYs) 2025 and 2026 than OMB estimated in its FY26 Executive Budget.

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City Hall, NY – During the City Council’s Executive Budget hearing jointly held by the Committee on Public Safety and the Committee on Finance on Thursday, the Council detailed changes to the New York Police Department (NYPD) and Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice’s (MOCJ) budgets and identified budget gaps within the Mayor’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Executive Budget for programs and services that improve community safety, prevent hate crimes, and reduce gun violence.

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Council also voted on legislation to establish a Southeast Queens Flooding Adaptation Task Force

City Hall – Today, the New York City Council voted to approve the Atlantic Avenue Mixed Use Plan (AAMUP), a rezoning in Council Members Crystal Hudson and Chi Ossé’s districts in Brooklyn, that will deliver 4,600 new units of housing, approximately 1,900 of which will be permanently affordable.

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Framework is critical tool to build local support necessary to confront housing crisis

City Hall, NY – Today, the New York City Council released its Community Planning Framework as a tool to help achieve successful land use outcomes that confront the housing crisis and other citywide and neighborhood needs through more intentional planning at the local level within communities.

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