In response to an overrun shelter system and affordable housing shortage, the city recently announced it is expanding the CityFHEPS housing subsidy program statewide. “The federal government used to ...
CityFHEPS launched in 2019, and it’s the largest city rental program that provides vouchers and housing for low-income families and individuals in New York City. Recently, it got a reboot. Claire ...
The City Council is seeking to join the lawsuit filed by low-income tenants against Mayor Eric Adams’ administration last week over City Hall’s refusal to implement a set of housing voucher laws, ...
“The city’s unwillingness to extend the voucher program to its vulnerable, undocumented immigrants is not only a costly mistake, but down right inhumane. We need the City Council and Mayor Eric Adams ...
The weekly notices Michael Garrett gets in the mail hit him like clockwork with two basic and jarring realities — his rent hasn’t been paid in months, and the city agency that made a commitment to ...
The City Council passed changes to the CityFHEPS program last year after it voted to override the mayor’s veto. The changes would give more people access to housing vouchers by increasing the income ...
Housing has always been at the heart of the American dream. But the current lack of affordable housing and failure of political will to build the housing we need is placing that dream out of reach for ...
The Legal Aid Society is gearing up to file a lawsuit in coming weeks seeking to force City Hall to implement a legislative package that would expand access to a rental voucher program that helps ...