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Mamdani Releases New York City’s First Citywide Racial Equity Plan

The release begins agency implementation and starts an equity budget review aimed at aligning spending with the plan for the FY2028 cycle.

Overview

  • The city released the final racial equity plan Tuesday, fulfilling a court finding that officials missed charter deadlines and moving the document from draft to implementation.
  • The 400-plus page blueprint groups eight citywide goals across 45 agencies and lists more than 200 agency goals, 800 strategies and 600 indicators to track progress.
  • City leaders said the plan will inform future budgets through a new equity budget review that the Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget and the Mayor’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice plan to apply to the FY2028 preliminary budget.
  • Officials described the citywide goals as directional commitments that currently lack citywide numerical targets while some agency-level measures do include specific benchmarks and timelines.
  • The plan grew out of voter-approved 2022 charter changes that created an Office of Racial Equity and requires two-year reporting, and its success will depend on agency follow-through, measurable budget shifts, and whether contested language changes are clarified during rollout.