Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City

New York City is a member of the first cohort of jurisdictions to participate in the Safety and Justice Challenge Network, the centerpiece of the Foundation’s strategy to address overincarceration by reducing jail misuse and overuse and disparities in jail usage. This award enables New York to build on and secure progress achieved during previous rounds of implementation funding, both in reducing jail populations, increasing fairness and advancing racial equity, while sustaining local system reform momentum.

New York City is an original member of the Safety and Justice Challenge Network, the centerpiece of the Foundation’s strategy to address over-incarceration by reducing jail misuse and overuse and disparities in jail usage. Under previous awards, New York engaged in a structured, collaborative process to identify local drivers of unnecessary jail incarceration, generated an ambitious plan to address them, and implemented the plan over a two-year period with technical assistance and guidance from a consortium of national experts. This award enables New York to continue its reform efforts, focused on changes in pretrial and arraignment decisions with the goal of achieving further reductions in local incarceration and racial and ethnic disparities.

To generate a plan to target jail misuse and overuse as part of a network of sites participating in the Safety and Justice Challenge, the Foundation’s criminal justice reform initiative to reduce over-incarceration by changing the way America thinks about and uses jails.

To study the effects that living in subsidized housing has on child and family well-being (over three years).

To support the design of a long-term study of the health and education impacts of subsidized housing on low-income residents of New York City.