Thomas-Henry asks about identifying low-income communities for community hiring
Thomas-Henry asks how low-income communities are identified for community hiring targeting. Perry explains it's rooted in state legislation targeting zip codes where 15%+ of the population is below federal poverty guidelines, plus NYCHA housing, and the city publishes a list of qualifying zip codes.
And how are you identifying which low-income communities or residents for these contractors to target?
Are you doing it by zip code, project area?
How is that working?
Yeah, so community hiring is rooted in state legislation.
And so the state legislation has pretty prescriptive requirements.
So for a construction contract, it's zip codes in which 15% or more of the population is below the federal poverty guidelines.
And so we publish a list of all of those zip codes.
It also includes NYCHA housing as well.
So the goals on construction projects are based on those low-income regions, both on the zip code level as well as NYCHA housing.