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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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Jul 2025

Featured Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

‘We Cracked The Code’: First Hotel-to-Housing Conversion Using State Program To Open in Queens

A pandemic-era program aimed to facilitate hotel and office to affordable housing conversions. After a slow start, and numerous financing and design challenges, its first project is opening in Queens.

ByPatrick Spauster 5Comments

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Jun 2025

Featured Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness

CityFHEPS Voucher Holders & Legal Aid Sue to Preserve Landlord Incentive

After the city suddenly cancelled an incentive for landlords to hold units for families with vouchers—covering one month’s rent while the subsidy application is processed—families in shelter and legal groups…

ByPatrick Spauster 6Comments

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Jun 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Justice Opinion

Opinion: NYC Can’t Solve Its Housing Crisis Without Addressing Voucher Discrimination

“Opening the Section 8 waitlist was huge, but it only addressed part of the problem—the city must invest more resources in addressing discrimination against voucher holders by increasing funding for the…

ByAmy Blumsack 1Comment

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May 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Justice Opinion

Opinion: Bias Fuels Source of Income Discrimination

“…much of the documented illegal discrimination is based on fears, bias, and stereotypes about the people who possess the rental subsidies and has less to do with the structure of…

ByFred Freiberg 0Comments

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Jan 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Justice

Gov. Hochul to Target Voucher Discrimination in Annual Address

The governor’s State of the State address will include proposals to discourage landlords—and insurance companies—from business practices rooted in anti-voucher bias.

ByEmma Whitford 2Comments

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Jul 2023

Government Housing and Homelessness Politics

NYC Council Overrides Veto in Order to Expand Rental Vouchers

The mayor has argued that the bills will be too costly, and that an expanded pool will make it harder for existing voucher holders in a city with too few…

ByEmma Whitford 1Comment

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Jun 2023

Government Housing and Homelessness Politics

Mayor Strikes Housing Voucher Waiting Period, as Further Reforms Hang in Balance

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday that he will eliminate a 90-day waiting period for New Yorkers in shelters to apply for rental vouchers, even as he declined…

ByEmma Whitford 3Comments

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