“In New York City, frontline staff see stalled housing packages regularly. Families wait while apartments remain available. Landlords lose trust in voucher programs.”
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…
“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…
Tenants who get affordable housing through the city’s lottery or a rental assistance voucher often can’t afford amenity fees in new mixed-income luxury buildings, creating what one described as a…
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…
An annual vigil honors the New Yorkers who died living on the streets and in the city’s shelters. “Every life lost to homelessness was preventable,” the event’s organizers said. “People…
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…
“I learned the hard way that affordable housing isn’t guaranteed—it’s conditional. The moment your income changes or an agency misses a form, the system recalculates your worth and can pull…
In spite of the shutdown, tenants in federally subsidized housing programs like Sections 8 will continue to receive those benefits, at least through October, according to legal experts.
On the latest episode, host Kadisha Davis speaks to Charisma White of the Safety Net Activists about her work in homelessness advocacy and her past experiences looking for housing with a…