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Explore EquityNYC Data Today
Reports outline economic, social, environmental, and physical health of New York City across race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, location, and income. View the City’s progress on advancing equity today.
Doing Business with the City
To do business with the City of New York, organizations need to create a vendor account in the city's Payee Information Portal (PIP) (to get paid) and also in Procurement and Sourcing Solutions Portal (PASSPort) (for all other contracting actions, including completing vendor disclosures, finding and responding to contracting opportunities, signing the contract upon contract award, and much more). The Mayor's Office of Contract Services (MOCS) developed and maintains PASSPort.
Open Doors
The hardest part of living in New York can be finding a place to live. Rents have risen dramatically in the past decades, while incomes have only risen moderately, leading to a housing crisis across the country, especially in cities where housing is already expensive.
But help is available–this guide lists the many resources that exist for New Yorkers looking for housing, such as rental assistance, public and low-income housing, and other programs. It will outline your rights as a renter and educate you about what landlords can and cannot ask you to do.
HealthyNYC
Health in the Bigger Picture
The role of public health is to protect and improve people's health. While health care focuses on treating and helping people when they are sick, public health promotes the quality of and equitable access to health care, social services and safe, healthy environments to prevent diseases before they occur.
Overlapping Community, Social and Structural Factors
Due to historical racial and economic segregation, people of color are more likely to live in neighborhoods with high poverty. Inequities in housing, nutrition, economic opportunity and access to health care are the result of structural racism experienced across generations. These systems benefit some communities while harming others, with harms compounding over time and generations, resulting in poorer health outcomes for those harmed.
Historical disinvestment in communities of color continues to result in entire neighborhoods having limited access to essential opportunities and resources, including health resources, with lower life expectancies as a result.