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

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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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

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Dec 2025

Featured Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Politics

NYC Council Overrides Mayor’s Veto of Bill Capping Rents for Voucher Holders

The legislation mandates that households receiving city rental assistance contribute no more than 30 percent of their income on rent. It reverses an earlier move by the Adams administration to…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 1Comment

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Oct 2025

Featured Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

This Building Was Supposed to be Luxury Apartments. Now It Will House 183 Families From Homeless Shelters

After a luxury building in East New York flopped, the city is taking advantage of a new program to fill it with families who have hard-to-use city housing vouchers.

ByPatrick Spauster 12Comments

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Aug 2025

Featured Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness Justice

City Backtracks on CityFHEPs Voucher Incentive, Will Subject Rule Change to Public Review

After a judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing the city from immediately eliminating an incentive that pays landlords to hold vacant units for CityFHEPs voucher holders, the city decided…

ByPatrick Spauster 4Comments

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Jun 2025

Economy Government Health Housing and Homelessness Politics

SNAP Under Attack: What Federal Cuts to Food Aid Would Mean for NYC

“Food and housing are absolutely related,” NYC Department of Social Services Commissioner Molly Wasow Park tells City Limits. “When people are in a choice between paying for food or paying…

ByMariana De Jesús-Szendrey 16Comments

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Jun 2025

Featured Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness In Depth

City Cuts Key Incentive For Landlords to Take CityFHEPS Housing Vouchers

In an effort to reduce program costs, landlords will no longer receive one month’s rent while the city processes housing voucher applications, a change that could make it less likely…

ByPatrick Spauster 19Comments

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Apr 2025

Economy Government Labor Opinion

Opinion: NYC Is Spending Millions on Workforce Development — But Not on the Workers Who Need It Most

Funding for adult workforce programs has fallen — despite clear evidence that investments in adult upskilling, credentialing and job placement deliver faster returns in wages, productivity and tax revenue.

ByGregory J. Morris 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 Homelessness Housing and Homelessness

City Must Keep Funding Mainchance Homeless Drop-In Center, Court Rules

A state judge ruled that the city terminated the homeless center’s contract without rational basis, ensuring the Midtown East center can continue to operate until 2026.

ByPatrick Spauster 1Comment

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