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The city’s sprawling, patchwork supportive housing network is designed to provide homes and services for people who have experienced homelessness. But too often the model leads to unnecessary restrictions, inconsistencies…

ByDavid Brand 2Comments

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Aug 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Let’s Have a Compassionate Conversation About NYC Homelessness

‘For every supportive housing slot there are six applications. Nearly 45,000 New Yorkers, including 14,000 children, fill the shelter system. What we need now is the political will to invest…

ByTori Lyon 0Comments

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Aug 2021

Housing and Homelessness

After Outcry, NYC Opens Emergency Housing Vouchers to More Homeless New Yorkers

The city’s previous policy, which City Limits reported on last month, blocked adults approved for supportive housing—permanent apartments with on-site staff, typically reserved for people with mental illness—from even applying…

ByDavid Brand 5Comments

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Jul 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness News

NYC Locks Out Many Homeless Applicants From New Federal Rent Assistance, Advocates Say

Adults approved for supportive housing will be precluded from applying for the federal rent vouchers—which attorneys and advocates say cuts off a path to housing for thousands of shelter residents…

ByDavid Brand 1Comment

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Apr 2021

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Supportive Housing is the Missing Piece from the Mayoral Housing Conversation

‘Supportive housing has been notably absent from most mayoral candidate housing discussions in spite of the fact that our homelessness crisis is the worst on record – and that it…

ByLaura Mascuch 1Comment

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Mar 2021

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness

City’s Preliminary Budget Offers More Housing Funds, But Maintains Cuts to Some Programs

HPD would see its capital funding restored with a slight increase in the mayor’s preliminary budget for fiscal year 2022. However, a few initiatives — such as a pilot program…

BySadef Ali Kully 1Comment

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Jul 2018

Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

Housing for NYC’s Most Vulnerable Under Scrutiny for ‘Screening’

As the city implements a new, federally mandated system for referring applicants to supportive housing, some advocates believe more must be done to stop housing providers from ‘screening out’ the…

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

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Mar 2018

Government Housing and Homelessness

Cuomo and De Blasio: Political Foes … but Affordable Housing Partners?

The mayor has proposed 300,000 affordable units. The governor 112,000 such homes. It turns out the plans will overlap, reflecting the realities of construction costs and creating a joint legacy…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 3Comments

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Mar 2018

Opinion

CityViews: Manhattan Beep on Why She Supports ‘Wish-Fish’ at West 108

‘This is a great project, and all great projects come with tradeoffs. ‘

ByGale Brewer 1Comment

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Dec 2017

Housing and Homelessness News NYCHA

Upstate, Downstate Call on Cuomo for Housing Reforms

A new statewide coalition has formed with the intention to push Cuomo and the state legislature for rent reforms, funding for public housing and more.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 2Comments

Pioneering Tenant Group Champions Rights of NYC’s 35K Supportive Housing Residents