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Legislation introduced in the City Council this week would toughen penalties against landlords and brokers who refuse to rent to tenants using rental subsidies—a practice known as Source of Income…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 4Comments

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Mar 2025

Opinion: The Problem Isn’t CityFHEPS

“Let’s not forget that the cost of vouchers represents people—people who can’t afford rent despite working full-time, people who without the voucher will become or remain homeless.”

ByJasmine Smith

ByMichael Bell 1Comment

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Feb 2025

Government Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

NYC Voucher Households Are Concentrated in a Handful of Neighborhoods, Data Shows

CityFHEPS vouchers are supposed to give low-income New Yorkers more choice in where they live, but data shows that voucher holders are predominately renting in certain Bronx and Southeast Brooklyn…

ByPatrick Spauster 2Comments

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Jan 2025

Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Housing Calendar NYCHA

NYC Housing Calendar, Jan. 27-Feb. 3

City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Jan 2025

Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Housing Calendar NYCHA

NYC Housing Calendar, Jan. 20-27

City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Dec 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Stable, Affordable Housing is the Foundation for New York’s Future

“When our family did finally find stable housing, it was transformative. Our apartment finally became a home—a foundation for our lives to flourish.”

ByZyneisha Green 0Comments

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Dec 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development NYCHA Opinion

Opinion: How Can New York Be a City of ‘Yes, And?’

“While revised zoning enables new structures, what other structures can we put in place to ensure that rising developments aren’t accompanied by still-rising rents?”

ByJumaane Williams 0Comments

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Nov 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: It’s Time to Fix CityFHEPS Vouchers

“CityFHEPS vouchers are meant to make life easier for tenants and their families facing eviction, or those families who have been previously unhoused, by paying ongoing rent. That sounds great…

ByRukhsar Asfe

ByKameal James 2Comments

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Oct 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness

Delays and ‘Weak Monitoring’ Undermine City’s Rental Voucher Program: Audit

The audit, by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, cited lags in determining eligibility and issuing payments for participants in the CityFHEPS voucher program, causing “significant delays in families and individuals being…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Oct 2024

Government Health Housing and Homelessness Justice Politics

Council Files Appeal Over Adams Admin’s Refusal to Expand Rental Vouchers

The appeal announcement included the launch of a website tracking the number of days since the Council says its laws should have been implemented—447, as of Tuesday—and the number of…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

‘I Was Ghosted, Degraded’: Bills Seek to Combat Discrimination Against Rental Vouchers

Opinion: The Problem Isn’t CityFHEPS

NYC Voucher Households Are Concentrated in a Handful of Neighborhoods, Data Shows

NYC Housing Calendar, Jan. 27-Feb. 3

NYC Housing Calendar, Jan. 20-27

Opinion: Stable, Affordable Housing is the Foundation for New York’s Future

Opinion: How Can New York Be a City of ‘Yes, And?’

Opinion: It’s Time to Fix CityFHEPS Vouchers

Council Files Appeal Over Adams Admin’s Refusal to Expand Rental Vouchers

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