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During the 2021 fiscal year, just 297 households using Special One-Time Assistance (SOTA) grants found apartments in another state. It was the first time that the majority of SOTA…

ByDavid Brand 12 minRead time

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Oct 2021

Government Health Housing and Homelessness

More Than 1,600 NY Landlords Apply for COVID Rent Relief on New Fund’s First Day

Applications for the new $125 million Landlord Rental Assistance Program (LRAP) opened Thursday, as state officials seek to reimburse property owners who were unable to apply for compensation through the…

ByDavid Brand 7 minRead time

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Oct 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

NYCHA Leaders List Priorities for Next HUD Regional Chief, as Biden Considers Brooklyn Councilmember

Councilmember Alicka Ampry-Samuel—who represents the 41st District of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Ocean Hill-Brownsville, East Flatbush, and Crown Heights—is President Joe Biden’s likely pick as next New York-New Jersey regional administrator for the…

ByDavid Brand 16 minRead time

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Oct 2021

Government Health Housing and Homelessness

COVID Cash Assistance Helped 1 Million New Yorkers Avoid Poverty, Report Finds

Researchers said their findings counter a narrative that stimulus payments and unemployment benefits were “too generous” and disincentivized work.

ByDavid Brand 5 minRead time

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Oct 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness

NYC Eased Rules for Families Entering Homeless Shelters. Advocates Want the Changes Made Permanent

Prior to the pandemic, city policy forced entire families—including each school-aged child—to show up at a Bronx facility known as the PATH intake center to complete an initial assessment, which…

ByDavid Brand 9 minRead time

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Sep 2021

Housing and Homelessness

Formerly Homeless Families in Harlem Still Without Gas or Hot Water, as Cold Weather Returns

Con Edison cut the gas to the West 145th Street building—a former cluster site shelter housing dozens of formerly homeless families—on May 14, after inspectors found dangerous corrosion on the…

ByDavid Brand 5 minRead time

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Sep 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness

Niños de Nueva York permanecen más tiempo en albergues, aunque disminuye el número de familias sin hogar

Las familias con niños pasan ahora casi 18 meses en promedio en los albergues del Departamento de Servicios para Desamparados (DHS por sus siglas en inglés), dos meses y medio…

ByDavid Brand 13 minRead time

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Sep 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness News

NYC Cutting Ties with Troubled Homeless Services Provider Aguila, Inc.

The city’s Department of Homeless Services (DHS) said it will stop contracting with Aguila to run the men’s shelter inside the Park View Hotel on West 110th St., across the…

ByDavid Brand 11 minRead time

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Sep 2021

Housing and Homelessness Justice

Bronx Tenants Still Locked Out of Homes 18 Months After Fire

Tenants say they fear the property owners are waging a war of attrition, waiting the renters out until they give up, move on and forfeit the rent-regulated apartments.

ByDavid Brand 13 minRead time

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Sep 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness News

NYC Children Have Longer Stays in Shelter, Even as Family Homelessness Declines

Families with children now spend nearly 18 months on average in Department of Homeless Services (DHS) shelters—two and half months longer than the previous fiscal year, according to Mayor Bill…

ByDavid Brand 9 minRead time

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Far Fewer Homeless Families Using Rent Subsidies to Move Out of NYC

More Than 1,600 NY Landlords Apply for COVID Rent Relief on New Fund’s First Day

NYCHA Leaders List Priorities for Next HUD Regional Chief, as Biden Considers Brooklyn Councilmember

NYC Eased Rules for Families Entering Homeless Shelters. Advocates Want the Changes Made Permanent

Formerly Homeless Families in Harlem Still Without Gas or Hot Water, as Cold Weather Returns

Niños de Nueva York permanecen más tiempo en albergues, aunque disminuye el número de familias sin hogar

NYC Cutting Ties with Troubled Homeless Services Provider Aguila, Inc.

Bronx Tenants Still Locked Out of Homes 18 Months After Fire

NYC Children Have Longer Stays in Shelter, Even as Family Homelessness Declines

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