The Legal Aid Society is gearing up to file a lawsuit in coming weeks seeking to force City Hall to implement a legislative package that would expand access to a rental voucher program that helps ...
In response to an overrun shelter system and affordable housing shortage, the city recently announced it is expanding the CityFHEPS housing subsidy program statewide. “The federal government used to ...
City Hall announced a new housing pilot program on Wednesday that would earmark as much as $10 million to repair dilapidated and vacant rent-stabilized homes for New Yorkers in need of housing, the ...
A judge sided with Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday over his refusal to implement a set of laws passed by the City Council last year that expand access to low-income housing vouchers. Manhattan Supreme ...
After the state budget deal failed to include a proposal for an Albany-funded rental voucher system, advocates are setting their sights on getting the City Council to pass Intro 146, which would ...
“The city’s unwillingness to extend the voucher program to its vulnerable, undocumented immigrants is not only a costly mistake, but down right inhumane. We need the City Council and Mayor Eric Adams ...
The City Council is seeking to join the lawsuit filed by low-income tenants against Mayor Eric Adams’ administration last week over City Hall’s refusal to implement a set of housing voucher laws, ...
When 80-year-old Carole Bellitti and her 50-year-old son John received word in March confirming they had been pre-approved for the CityFHEPS housing voucher program for low-income households, they ...
Housing has always been at the heart of the American dream. But the current lack of affordable housing and failure of political will to build the housing we need is placing that dream out of reach for ...
The weekly notices Michael Garrett gets in the mail hit him like clockwork with two basic and jarring realities — his rent hasn’t been paid in months, and the city agency that made a commitment to ...