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    NORTH AMERICAN Newsline                                           SEPTEMBER 11, 2026       |  The Indian Eye 26

                 Mayor Mamdani Releases New York

             City’s First Citywide Racial Equity Plan

               Plan sets eight citywide goals to address racial disparities across employment, maternal

                                                           health, child care and more

            OUR BUREAU                                                                                            be able to see and feel the impact of
                                                                                                                  this work, and government must be
            NEW YORK, NY
                                                                                                                  accountable for closing these dispar-
                     ayor  Zohran    Kwame                                                                        ities.”
                     Mamdani and the Mayor’s                                                                          The final citywide Racial Equity
            MOffice of Equity and Racial                                                                          Plan builds on the NYC True Cost
            Justice have released the final City-                                                                 of Living (TCOL) Measure, also
            wide Racial Equity Plan (REP), New                                                                    released in April, which found that
            York  City’s  first  government-wide                                                                  62%  of  New  Yorkers  cannot  meet
            framework  for  advancing  racial  eq-                                                                the true cost of living and that the
            uity.                                                                                                 burden falls disproportionately on
                The  final  plan  follows  a  30-day                                                              Black and Latino households.
            public comment period after the pre-                                                                      MOERJ will report every two
            liminary plan was released in April.                                                                  years on progress toward each of the
            During that period, the Mayor’s                                                                       eight citywide goals, alongside the
            Office  of  Equity  and  Racial  Justice                                                              plan’s broader set of agency-level
            (MOERJ)  gathered  feedback  from                                                                     goals, strategies and indicators. The
            New Yorkers across the five boroughs                                                                  NYC Commission on Racial Equity
            and worked with 45 City agencies to                                                                   (CORE) will continue to serve as an
            strengthen the plan’s goals, strategies                                                               independent accountability partner
            and indicators.                     Yorkers relative to 2026 rates, in-  changes that. These commitments   on implementation.
                Alongside agency-level commit-  cluding  by  improving  workforce   are specific, measurable and public,   “SBS is proud of our role in
            ments  finalized  this  year,  the  plan   development outcomes.    and  New  Yorkers  should  hold  us   addressing  systemic inequities  and
            sets eight citywide goals that New   • Justice System: By 2034, reduce   accountable for delivering on them.   connecting  New  Yorkers  from  all
            Yorkers  can  use  to  track  the  City’s   the jail population, which is dis-  Whether it means narrowing dis-  backgrounds  to  free  business  and
            progress:                           proportionately made up of New   parities in unemployment, reducing   workforce  services  that  build  real
            • Housing: By 2034, address racial   Yorkers of color, while operation-  Black maternal mortality or making   economic security,” said SBS Com-
              disparities in rent burden and    alizing smaller borough-based jail   sure every child has access to a great   missioner Kenny Minaya. “I want
              homelessness by dramatically in-  facilities.                     public education, this is what it looks   to  thank  Mayor  Mamdani,  Deputy
              creasing the production of afford-  • Health: By 2034, improve preg-  like to govern with equity in mind.”    Mayor Su, and our sister agencies
              able housing across New York City.     nancy-related health outcomes for   “This plan sets targets we intend   for their partnership, and recognize
            • Early Childhood Education: By     Black  New  Yorkers,  including  by   to meet and gives New Yorkers a way   the Mayor’s Office of Equity and Ra-
              2034, reduce achievement gaps     reducing Black maternal mortality,   to  check  our  work  along  the  way,”   cial Justice for its leadership in bring-
              and racial disparities in literacy,   with progress tracked by race and   said Deputy Mayor for Economic   ing this plan together and ensuring
              numeracy and social-emotional     ethnicity.                      Justice Julie Su. “The goals around   that race is never a barrier to success
              development by expanding and    • Transportation: By 2034, reduce   unemployment  and  housing  speak   in New York City.”
              improving early childhood educa-  racial disparities in transportation   directly to what we hear from work-  “This racial equity plan will be
              tion while advancing job quality for   access by prioritizing faster, more   ing  New  Yorkers  every  day:  They   our guide to ensuring that every New
              child care workers – the majority of   reliable and accessible bus service   want a fair shot at a job and a home   Yorker  can  fully  participate  in  the
              whom are women of color.          in Task Force on Racial Inclusion   they can afford in the neighborhoods   cultural life of our city as artists, cul-
            • K-12 Education: By 2034, increase   and Equity (TRIE) neighborhoods   they call home.”              tural  workers, and  audiences,” said
              the number of integrated New      and communities experiencing the    “The  public  feedback  sessions   Cultural Affairs Commissioner Diya
              York City public schools with sta-  greatest transportation burdens.    gave  New  Yorkers  the  opportunity   Vij. “New  York’s  vibrant  cultural
              ble enrollment, equitable access to   • Connectivity: By 2034, increase   to make this plan stronger and more   ecosystem was shaped by generations
              academic programs and services,   home broadband adoption in the   intentional,” said NYC Chief Equi-  of advocates who fought for inclusion
              and culturally responsive leader-  city’s most under-connected neigh-  ty Officer and NYC Mayor’s Office   through public investment, but fund-
              ship that improves belonging, en-  borhoods, with data disaggregated   of Equity and Racial Justice Com-  ing and resources remain uneven for
              gagement and academic outcomes    by neighborhood.                missioner Afua Atta-Mensah. “We   communities that have experienced
              for  Black  and  Latino  students,   “New Yorkers told us what mat-  heard a clear demand for baselines,   generations of underinvestment.
              multilingual  learners,  students   tered to them, and this plan is built   accountability and structural change.   This plan recognizes that cultural
              with disabilities and other histori-  around those demands,” said Mayor   Training sessions and outreach alone   equity, racial equity, and econom-
              cally underserved communities.    Zohran Kwame Mamdani. “For too   are not enough to change people’s   ic justice are inseparable, and will
            • Unemployment: By 2034, reduce   long, government has been willing   lives. The final Racial Equity Plan re-  shape how DCLA distributes public
              unemployment rates among Black,   to  acknowledge  inequality  without   flects the input from New Yorkers of   resources,  designs  programs,  and
              Latino and Asian American New   setting goals for ending it. This plan   all backgrounds. New Yorkers should   measures success.”

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