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Yang Presses Forward, Wiley Is Sidelined: Highlights From Mayor’s Race

Andrew Yang met with the Rev. Al Sharpton, and Maya Wiley is in quarantine. Yet another candidate joined those seeking to become New York City’s next mayor.

• Published Dec. 28, 2020 Updated Jan. 11, 2021

Few elected officials seem more eager than Mayor Bill de Blasio to put, as he phrased it, this “God-forsaken” year behind him. But 2020 was not without its lessons for this mayor and for those seeking to succeed him.

On Wednesday, Mr. de Blasio said this year had taught him the importance of self-care, and he recommended that whoever succeeds him bear that lesson in mind.

“One thing I’ll tell you that I’ve learned — this is something Chirlane used to lecture me on all the time — that sleep really matters,” said the mayor, referring to his wife, Chirlane McCray. “And I’ve not been someone who has traditionally gotten enough sleep.”

No one disputes the value of sleep. Yet it seemed bizarre for the mayor — whose sometimes somnolent approach to schedule-keeping prompted The New York Post to give him an alarm clock in 2014 — to focus on his sleeping habits.

Sure enough, his comments provoked ridicule on social media, another Post front-page headline — “Bedtime for Blasio”— and an opportunity for several mayoral hopefuls to offer their own lessons that they learned this year.

Here’s what you need to know about the week that was in the mayor’s race.

The former aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to Forbes, said Yang is “definitely” considering a run to succeed Mayor Bill de Blasio, after it was first reported by Politico, but he hasn’t made a decision yet.

Yang would instantly become one of the most well-known candidates in the already-packed field, which includes front-runners Scott Stringer, the city comptroller, and Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president.

After dropping out of the 2020 race in February, Yang started a nonprofit, Humanity Forward, dedicated to furthering the case for universal basic income, a staple of his presidential platform.

Yang also joined CNN as a political commentator and announced earlier this month he was moving to Georgia to assist Democrats in the Senate runoff elections there.

The New York City mayoral primary is scheduled for June 22, 2021; De Blasio is unable to seek a third term because of term limits.

Forbes has reached out to Yang’s nonprofit for comment.

Not in the Yang Gang

Likely not high on Dolan’s list of Democratic mayoral hopefuls: former presidential candidate Andrew Yang.

Records show Dolan’s committee registered Jan. 15. The day prior, Yang launched his campaign with a website that included a pledge to end tax breaks for the Garden.

“If nothing is done, MSG’s total tax break could be $1 billion by 2030,” Yang’s site reads. “I would support existing legislation in the state capital that finally ends this 38-year long property exemption.”

A spokesperson for Dolan’s committee noted that the paperwork for The Coalition to Restore New York was submitted before Yang’s announcement.

Madison Square Garden in Midtown, Manhattan, Aug. 3, 2020. Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY

Still, Yang’s campaign saw the new committee as a slap shot across the bow from the head of the Rangers and the perennially beleaguered Knicks.

“Unsurprisingly, Andrew Yang’s plan to save the Knicks has earned him at least one enemy,” his press secretary Jake Sporn told THE CITY.

Dolan was the highest-paid CEO in the media sector during the 2019 fiscal year, with a compensation package worth $54.1 million, according to an analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

An MSG spokesperson said Dolan voluntarily relinquished one-time equity awards as part of a lawsuit settlement, bringing his 2019 compensation to $14 million.

Dolan told the New York Post in September that he planned to help “balance the scales” against Democrats.

“I think we’re going to start taking more aggressive positions, particularly in New York politics,” he said.

“New York is really a one-party city, particularly the city, I don’t think that’s healthy democracy,” Dolan added. “I think that you will see us be very pro-two party democracy.”

Dolan couldn’t be reached for comment Tuesday. But the spokesperson for his new committee released a statement:

“The goal of The Coalition to Restore New York is to make the recovery of New York City the number one campaign issue for this year’s elections, giving voters a voice to demand that each candidate has a responsible plan to address New York City’s problems — a plan that prioritizes the city’s economic revitalization and improves the lives of all New Yorkers.”

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Former Democratic presidential contender Andrew Yang is planning to enter the race to succeed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in November.

The former tech executive, who was born in upstate New York and has lived for years in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, has been telling New York power brokers that he intends to run although no announcement is expected until next month, according to new reports Friday. The Democratic primary is in June.

Those Yang has tapped for advice recently are said to include NYC City Council Speaker Corey Johnson. He plans to meet with Rev. Al Sharpton next week when he returns to the city from Georgia, where he has been trying to help Democrats in two heated U.S. Senate runoffs. And he has called on two prominent political strategists who worked for former Mayor Michael Bloomberg as advisers, according to the New York Times Friday.

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Yang’s presidential campaign included a pledge of universal basic income and his MATH slogan — Make America Think Harder — got lots of publicity and nearly $40 million in campaign contributions.

New York’s rough-and-tumble politics can be unexpected and feature famous names. De Blasio swept in to unseat front-runner Christine Quinn in in primaries in 2013. Quinn is a former City Council speaker, who reportedly may run again. Actress Cynthia Nixon failed in a run for governor in 2018.

The mayoral race has over a dozen candidates in the mix, including longtime politicians and outsiders including Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams, city comptroller Scott Stringer and lawyer Maya Wiley, a former MSNBC contributor. On Thursday, Representative Max Rose, who lost his re-election bid last month, registered a mayoral campaign committee with the city’s Campaign Finance Board, the NYT said.

Yang told the paper earlier this year he would “take a long look” at a run since “the mayor of New York City can do a lot of good.”

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Andrew Yang Holds Slight Lead for NYC Mayor in New Poll

Published December 21, 2020 • Updated on December 21, 2020 at 12:49 pm

He hasn’t declared his candidacy yet, but businessman and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang has a slight lead among his fellow Democrats running for mayor of New York City, according to a new poll released Monday.

Yang would get 17 percent support in a Democratic primary, according to the Public Policy Polling survey. That gives him a 1-point lead over Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, with all other candidates at least 10 points back.

The phone and text survey, sponsored by Education Reform Now Advocacy New York, was conducted among 755 likely Democratic primary voters Dec. 16-17; it has a margin of error of 3.6 percent.

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Yang sparked a huge following in the Democratic primaries for president with his call for universal basic income, though his broad online popularity did not translate to votes as hoped.

But he is widely reported to be considering a bid for mayor, and the PPP poll is the second in recent weeks to show him with a lead over Adams.

The field is far from set, though. Some 40 percent of voters said they weren’t sure who they would support, and the poll also left out multiple declared or potential candidates, including Rep. Max Rose, who recently filed papers to explore a run.

The same PPP poll found that 56 percent of voters had a somewhat or very unfavorable view of Mayor Bill de Blasio, but 76 percent have a somewhat or very favorable view of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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Using Technology to Redesign College Advising and Student Support

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A More Generous Earned Income Tax Credit for Singles

Interim Findings from the Paycheck Plus Demonstration in Atlanta

The Earned Income Tax Credit reduces poverty for many low-income families but does little for workers without dependent children. Paycheck Plus, being tested in New York City and Atlanta, offers an expanded credit to this population. This report presents its two-year impacts on employment, earnings, and income in Atlanta.

HUD’s Jobs Plus Pilot Program for Public Housing Residents

Ongoing Implementation Experiences

Households receiving federal rental subsidies struggle to become self-sufficient. Jobs Plus provides grants to public housing agencies to offer tenants employment-related services, rent-based work incentives, and community support for work. This report examines a second round of Jobs Plus implementation, including evolving program operations, challenges, resident participation, and technical assistance.

Integrating Technology and Advising

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How Community-Based Organizations Can Use New York State Employment and Wage Data

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A change in state law presents an opportunity for organizations to access administrative wage data to help evaluate and improve their workforce programs. This guide, based on lessons from the Change Capital Fund economic mobility initiative, explains some of the challenges involved and offers practical advice for interested community organizations.

Chicago Neighborhood Networks

Stability and Change

Community organizations are at the center of neighborhood improvement efforts. But how do organizational networks evolve over time, and how does their evolution affect local capacity for positive change? This report takes on these questions to advance an understanding of how community networks function, and how to better support them.

Network Effectiveness in Neighborhood Collaborations

Learning from the Chicago Community Networks Study

This report presents findings from the Chicago Community Networks study — one of the most extensive efforts to measure interorganizational partnerships in local neighborhoods. It uses social network analysis and extensive field research to ask how specific patterns of partnership promote better-implemented collaborations that, in turn, can inform public policy.

Learning from the Work Rewards Demonstration

Final Results from the Family Self-Sufficiency Study in New York City

FSS provides case management services and a long-term escrow-savings account to housing-assisted families; an enhanced version also offered short-term cash work incentives. Six-year results of the random assignment evaluation show few significant effects overall for either program. However, the enhanced program increased employment and earnings for participants not working at enrollment.

Effects of a Modified Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Two American Cities

Findings from Family Rewards 2.0

A program in Memphis and the Bronx offered cash incentives, coupled with family guidance, to poor families for meeting certain health care, education, and work milestones. The program increased income and reduced poverty, increased dental visits and health status, reduced employment somewhat, and had few effects on students’ education.

Engaging Disconnected Young People in Education and Work

Findings from the Project Rise Implementation Evaluation

Project Rise offers education, a paid internship, and case management to young adults who lack a high school credential and have been out of work and school for at least six months. Participants, who were attracted more by the educational instruction than by the internship, substantially engaged with the program.

Building Self-Sufficiency for Housing Voucher Recipients

Interim Findings from the Work Rewards Demonstration in New York City

This report presents four-year findings from a test of three interventions: the Family Self-Sufficiency ( FSS ) program, FSS plus cash work incentives, and cash work incentives alone. FSS +incentives improved employment and earnings among participants who were not working at study entry, but none of the interventions had impacts for participants overall.

Conditional Cash Transfers in New York City

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Family Rewards, a three-year demonstration, provided cash payments to low-income families in New York City for achieving specific health, education, and employment goals. New results show that the program substantially reduced poverty and material hardship while it operated and had positive results in improving some education, health, and work-related outcomes.

Working Toward Self-Sufficiency

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Opportunity NYC –Work Rewards is testing three ways of increasing work among families receiving housing vouchers — services and a savings plan under the federal Family Self-Sufficiency ( FSS ) program, the FSS program plus cash incentives for sustained full-time work, and the cash incentives alone. Early results suggest intriguing positive findings for certain subgroups.

Esther Yang

“There is no room for arrogance or egos in this line of work. I am looking to be humbled, to learn, and design under my heart’s convictions. These convictions are to serve and love — requisites that are rare within conventional architectural practice.”

Esther Yang now joins the Rose collection of alumni as she finished with her Bronx-based host organization, Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation in 2010. She began her Fellowship with an array of professional experiences within multiple architecture firms, academic teaching and social justice initiatives. Esther now completes her time as a Rose Fellow with a refined set of skills, resources and a network of domestic and international colleagues to facilitate more conscientious and compassionate development practices.

«These leaps in my professional development could not have happened without the opportunities Fordham Bedford and the Rose Fellowship have graciously opened up to me,» says Esther. «The mentorship and trust granted me by Fordham Bedford were pivotal to my career development and consequently permitted me to diversify my explorations and career options.»

Her scope of work during the Fellowship engulfed her in numerous projects with roles ranging from project management, construction, design, and outreach. Additionally, Esther’s collaborations with many industry colleagues targeting energy and water conservation practices have translated into several local and national development reform initiatives. Consistently involving herself between practice and policy, Esther maintains her hunt for fresh and productive perspectives to inject into the industry.

Jacob’s Place

Scope:
62 affordable rental housing units
Community room
Child-care facility (10,000 sq ft)
Common residential amenity room (93 sq ft)
2 common courtyards/terraces (8,000 sq ft)
2 offices

Residential Unit Profile:
14 1 BR 552-631 sq ft
41 2 BR 739-854 sq ft
7 3 BR 959-959 sq ft
62 TOTAL

Status:
Completed 2007

2668 Decatur Avenue

Scope:
18 affordable rental housing units
Common residential amenity room (67 sq ft)
Common residential amenity room (646 sq ft)
Common residential amenity room (194 sq ft)
Common courtyard/terrace (1,755 sq ft)

Residential Unit Profile:
Designed to be entirely affordable, 2668 Decatur Avenue will have four units set aside for households earning no more than 50% of the Area Median Income (AMI) with the remainder available only to households with an income that is up to 60% of the AMI.

To help ensure that the project remains affordable while reducing its environmental impact, Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation (FBHC) has committed to making 2668 Decatur Avenue the first development in its portfolio to comply with Enterprise Foundation’s Green Community Standards. In addition, the development will encourage water conservation and prevent storm water runoff by including a rainwater harvesting/filtration system for the flushing of toilets and landscape irrigation. FBHC calculates that for every $1.00 of water saved, the project will recoup an additional $1.59 in sewer usage charges.

As with Jacob’s Place and Serviam Gardens, FBHC and Esther will use 2668 Decatur Avenue to conduct research about the cost benefits of sustainable initiatives and to learn how to implement and improve strategies on subsequent projects.

2311 Tiebout Avenue

Scope:
5,766 sq ft gross site area
New construction
7 stories + basement
19,957 sq ft gross project area
20 affordable rental housing units
Common residential amenity room (133 sq ft)
Common residential amenity room (537 sq ft)
Common courtyard/terrace (471 sq ft)
Green roof

Residential Unit Profile:
Esther Yang will tackle many projects during her Rose Fellowship with Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation (FBHC), but 2311 Tiebout Avenue is likely to be a constant companion. Esther is working with architect Jack Coogan of Oaklander, Coogan, and Vitto (OCV) Architects on this infill housing development in the Bronx. One early milestone was recently reached when they submitted designs for the development to New York City for approval.

The project designs demonstrate how FBHC is continuing to test sustainable strategies within affordable housing development. Plans call for incorporating solar hot water and for seeking LEED certification. The project will be one of many “test” buildings where FBHC and Esther will implement and learn from select sustainable techniques. Their goal is better sustainable decisions for subsequent projects.

Serviam Gardens

Scope:
83,046 sq ft gross site area
New construction
8 stories + basement
151,652 sq ft gross project area

Residential Unit Profile:
Serviam Gardens is a two-phase senior housing development planned for a vacant lot on the campus of Mount Saint Ursula’s. The lot is part of a nine-acre piece of land that includes a girls’ high school, and is connected to an Ursuline convent.

FBHC’s development strategy works in the favor of the Ursuline Sisters as it allows the convent to generate revenue for their operations and convent community. The program for the site, a 240-unit senior housing proposal, aligns with the Ursuline mission and allows the convent to sustain their land without the actual sale of the church or of its property. Concurrently, the lease agreement provides FBHC land to develop much needed housing with scarce land options.

The housing will be affordable to low- and moderate-income seniors. The current plan proposes smaller units, thereby reducing the footprint, parking requirements on the property, and the number of people sharing the overall campus. Additionally, FBHC will renovate and reuse existing convent structure by converting it to housing, community and administrative space.

As development progresses, FBHC, with the assistance of Esther, will continue efforts to ensure the execution of sustainable design and construction practices, as well as effective community programming.

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