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NY Lawmakers Propose $250M to Launch Section 8-Style Rent Subsidy

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  • Penelope
    Posted March 14, 2022 at 6:50 am

    This sounds great at face value but why not address the real issue. Raise wages!! Everyone struggles because wages are stagnant and have not kept up with the cost of living in NYC. Programs like these come on the backs of the middle class, stop the madness. If wages increased then you would not need programs like these as much.

  • Lola
    Posted March 14, 2022 at 7:43 am

    Why are we subsidizing/paying rents for illegals? We have vets in the streets who served our country proudly. We have mothers and children abandoned by their spouses/fathers, elderly whose fixed incomes no longer cover not only the rent but skyrocketing costs of food, utilities, clothing et al.. and these are taxpayers US citizens! I do not consent to dole out my hard earned – hear that libs – hard earned – monies for anyone else.

  • Lorraine
    Posted March 14, 2022 at 1:10 pm

    Why are Illegals getting the rent paid that’s so ridiculous if that’s the problem send them back to their own country

  • J.F.
    Posted March 14, 2022 at 2:01 pm

    As a city employee who’s been looking for affordable housing for 15 years. Constantly applying on the lists, I’ve only been contacted twice. Once 7 years ago. I turned in my paperwork at some obscure address in Queens for a a place in brooklyn and heard nothing back. Then in October, I applied in the Bronx where it would take me 2 hours or more to get to my job inland they responded in 1 month. Insane. This is why many of my colleagues are just moving out of state. Why do we have to do this if we serve this city.
    I agree with the first comment. It the salaries. It never keeps up with the cost of living. Affordable housing is affordable for whom. Not for single parent if one. It’s for two income families or single persons with the appropriate income. Does the city have any idea of how many employees live with extended families and can’t afford the rents. Let’s not forget that rents rose by 30% after the moratorium, making the opportunity to afford rent even more impossible. Some of use want to be able to afford to pay rent and feed our families with out pay checks and not rely on assistance, so that those resources can go to those who need it most.
    And like the first commentator says at face value this looks and sounds good but I question if these funds will really go to those who need it.
    I work in an educational institution where I assist many people who live in shelters and they are telling me that the new increased section 8 voucher is only being accepted mainly on the Bronx. If they do find a place to live it’s usually a room,
    Yes they are thankful for a space to live but room living is not acceptable for adults. What’s the difference from living in a room and the shelter. Minus the curfew it’s not how adults choose to live. It’s great for a young person starting out but I’m life this is crazy.
    We need to look at all these policies and look deeper into these so called success stories of placing people in housing. It’s like put people anywhere and say yeah we gave them a home.

  • j.f.
    Posted March 14, 2022 at 8:22 pm

    As a city employee who’s been looking for affordable housing for 15 years. Constantly applying on the lists, I’ve only been contacted twice. Once 7 years ago. I turned in my paperwork at some obscure address in Queens for a a place in brooklyn and heard nothing back. Then in October, I applied in the Bronx where it would take me 2 hours or more to get to my job in brooklyn. They responded in 1 month. Insane.

    This is why many of my colleagues are just moving out of state. Why do we have to do this if we serve this city.

    I agree with the first commentator, it’s the salaries. It never keeps up with the cost of living. Affordable housing is affordable for whom. Not for single parent of one. It’s for two income families or single persons with the appropriate income. Does the city have any idea of how many employees live with extended families and can’t afford the rents. Let’s not forget that rents rose by 30% after the moratorium, making the opportunity to afford rent even more impossible. Some of us want to be able to afford to pay rent and feed our families with our pay checks and not rely on assistance, so that those resources can go to those who need it most.
    And like the first commentator says at face value this looks and sounds good but I question if these funds will really go to those who need it.
    I work in an educational institution where I assist many people who live in shelters and they are telling me that the new increased section 8 voucher is only being accepted mainly in the Bronx. If they do find a place to live it’s usually a room in Queens. The other boroughs rents are to expense.
    Yes they are thankful for a space to live but room living is not acceptable for adults. What’s the difference from living in a room and the shelter. Minus the curfew it’s not how adults choose to live. It’s great for a young person starting out but In an adult life this is crazy.
    We need to look at all these policies and look deeper into these so called success stories of placing people in housing. It’s like put people anywhere and say yeah we gave them a home.

    • si homeowner
      Posted March 15, 2022 at 4:16 pm

      You sound like a hard working guy. Let me ask you a question? Why didn’t you save up over all this time to put a down payment on a home or condo somewhere in NYC or in the suburbs. I bought a 1-family house in the early 1990s and while owning a house is not cheap I control my own living space, and not chased around by NYC landlords my entire life. My parents bought a house in the early 1960s for the same reasons.

      Good luck!

      • J.F.
        Posted March 22, 2022 at 4:00 pm

        Thanks. I’ll definitely see your point. I’m thinking about buying upstate

  • Fietta
    Posted March 14, 2022 at 10:48 pm

    Just as someone else stated….fix the problem and increase wage pay. Fix the Section 8 program as well. Why create a similar program when there are so many with the original? It’s extremely hard to find someone willing to take people on Section 8 as it is and once you do find something it’s not suitable for living or landlords are slumlords. I could go on and on, but I think you get the idea.

    • si homeowner
      Posted March 15, 2022 at 4:10 pm

      Section-8 renters are the worst of the worst and have a reputation for disruptive and criminal activity. No sane landlord wants them, this proposed HAVP voucher program will also be used by worst of the worst.

  • Randi moore
    Posted March 16, 2022 at 11:46 am

    Sounds like a good start but someone needs to help the middle class who carry the burden for everyone it seems. Affordable is a crazy term. The person who affirdable for whom is right on spot! Many programs help the very poor… I feel due then. But the reason Mitchell lama helped was because it was the middle people. The prob was landlords being able to buy out of the program after benefiting fir years! Help before the middle cksss is just a dream in nyc and there are only two classes left. Guess How that will go re politics?

  • Margie camacho
    Posted March 22, 2022 at 1:53 pm

    I understand where all the issue has arise since 2011 issue or burden has given people to find stability in a place that’s livable look how long it to nycha to start repairing issue that has surpassed its living conditions then now with the COVID issue it put a stand still on everyone jobs gone major health issues financial mayor problems now how can people recover from this. We need a place to call home not a place to go to at night . Their are rodents issue still affecting areas. I live in a place where you heard them through the walls and it’s a six floor dueling. It’s been like this for years my mothers apartment. I need help to pay for the rent there I’m praying for something better and livable

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