CityFHEPS Archives - City Limits

10

“The impact of this is already visible across New York’s shelter system. Many families are working, trying to secure housing, and ready to move forward. But they cannot afford to…

ByJennifer Love Ortiz 0Comments

27

May 2026

Featured Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Justice Politics

Mayor’s Budget Plan Could Further Shrink City’s Housing Discrimination Enforcement

NYC’s Commission on Human Rights investigates landlords and real estate brokers who discriminate against rental voucher holders. The agency is already understaffed, sources say.

ByPatrick Spauster 3Comments

18

May 2026

Featured Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Politics

Rental Voucher Expansion Absent From Mayor’s Budget Plan, As City Hall Proposes Program Reforms

The CityFHEPS program’s expansion, first passed by city lawmakers in 2023, would extend eligibility to people facing eviction and people with more modest incomes, but has been delayed by a…

ByPatrick Spauster 0Comments

29

Apr 2026

Featured Government Hear Our Voices Podcast Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Podcasts

‘Hear Our Voices’ Podcast: Former Council Speaker Quinn on Mamdani’s Rental Voucher Reversal

“The best way for people to move out of shelter is to have a voucher,” said Christine Quinn, head of the family shelter provider WIN. “It also is economically better…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

26

Mar 2026

Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: When Paperwork Keeps Families in Shelter

“In New York City, frontline staff see stalled housing packages regularly. Families wait while apartments remain available. Landlords lose trust in voucher programs.”

ByJennifer Love Ortiz 0Comments

25

Mar 2026

Featured Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Politics

Unable to Reach Deal Before Court Deadline, Mamdani Appeals in Rental Voucher Expansion Case

The Mamdani administration is appealing a court decision compelling the city to expand the CityFHEPS rental assistance program—a suit he said he’d drop—after negotiations with advocates and City Council leaders…

ByPatrick Spauster 3Comments

05

Mar 2026

Featured Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Profiles

Outgoing Social Services Commissioner Wants City To Stay ‘Proactive’

“So many of these issues are interrelated, but so often treated as existing in silos,” says Department of Social Services Commissioner Molly Wasow Park, who departs this week after three…

ByPatrick Spauster 0Comments

13

Feb 2026

Featured Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Politics Resources

‘Honor His Promise’: Advocates Criticize Mamdani’s CityFHEPS Reversal, and What Else Happened This Week in Housing

Mayor Zohran Mamdani pledged to expand eligibility for city housing vouchers according to City Council laws that his predecessor failed to implement. Faced with steep fiscal challenges, he said the city…

ByJeanmarie Evelly

ByPatrick Spauster 6Comments

12

Feb 2026

Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Homeless New Yorkers Need Vouchers, Not SROs

“Many low-income New Yorkers—including those who are homeless but not in shelters—have been counting on Mayor Mamdani to implement the CityFHEPS expansion. His decision to stall, blaming the prior administration’s…

ByMiranda DeNovo 3Comments

22

Jan 2026

Featured Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness In Depth

Can Mamdani Afford to Expand the CityFHEPS Voucher Program?

Zohran Mamdani promised to expand eligibility for the CityFHEPS rental voucher program to people with slightly higher incomes and households at risk of eviction, but a larger than expected fiscal…

ByPatrick Spauster 4Comments

Opinion: More Than Half of New Yorkers Can’t Afford New York. That Should Alarm All of Us.

Mayor’s Budget Plan Could Further Shrink City’s Housing Discrimination Enforcement

Rental Voucher Expansion Absent From Mayor’s Budget Plan, As City Hall Proposes Program Reforms

‘Hear Our Voices’ Podcast: Former Council Speaker Quinn on Mamdani’s Rental Voucher Reversal

Unable to Reach Deal Before Court Deadline, Mamdani Appeals in Rental Voucher Expansion Case

‘Honor His Promise’: Advocates Criticize Mamdani’s CityFHEPS Reversal, and What Else Happened This Week in Housing

Opinion: Homeless New Yorkers Need Vouchers, Not SROs

Can Mamdani Afford to Expand the CityFHEPS Voucher Program?

Newsletter

Newsletter

To better help City Limits know and serve our community, please select all that apply: