The Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity

A before and after image of a room in a domestic violence shelter that was transformed by the EmPWR program.

Reimagining Shelter Spaces for Survivors of Domestic Violence

Reimagining Shelter Spaces for Survivors of Domestic Violence: EmPWR Evaluation Highlights the Promise of Participatory Design.

The New York City Government Poverty Measure, 2021

What You Need to Know

This NYC annual poverty report updates the NYCgov Poverty Measure for New York City in 2021. This report covers the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when the employment market was severely disrupted, and it shows the dramatic impact that government support can have on poverty levels.

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EquityNYC v3.0 Launch

EquityNYC, New York City’s equity data tool, has updated data and features! The site now includes data sets through 2022, disaggregated by race/ethnicity, gender, income, sexual orientation, and neighborhood. The tool has also been redesigned to make it easier to find the data you’re looking for.

Image of the cover of NYC Opportunity's Retrospective report

Reducing Poverty and Advancing Equity: A Retrospective

Reducing Poverty and Advancing Equity: A Retrospective provides a look at ways our multidisciplinary team has worked across City government, partnering with agencies to initiate new approaches and enhance existing practices between 2014 and 2021

NYC Opportunity Releases Evaluation of NYCitizenship

NYC Opportunity, in partnership with the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, released a new evaluation of the NYCitizenship Program.

Evaluation finds NYCitizenship and its Community Navigator Model are valuable in helping clients.

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