Sentences with phrase «rental subsidy program»

The administration's proposal follows a former rental subsidy program, Advantage, which the state stopped funding in 2011.

The City Council's general welfare committee voted unanimously to pass a resolution this morning calling on the state Assembly and Senate and Governor Andrew Cuomo to change state budget language to allow New York City to use state funds to pay for rental subsidy programs for the homeless.

In total, the de Blasio administration hopes to save $ 15 million out of the $ 122 million it spent last year on these apartments, redirecting those funds to a new rental subsidy program for the chronically homeless.

The mayor has previously criticized Cuomo, with whom he has been feuding, for exacerbating the homeless problem in the city by cutting a $ 68 million rental subsidy program in 2011.

De Blasio has extolled HRA programs like the new rental subsidy program LINC, which Banks developed to replace Advantage, the defunct subsidy program which was dissolved in 2011 amid a city - state squabble over funding.

Among them, a proposed rental subsidy program that would serve 801 families annually, for a total of 3,204 families over three years.

Which, while clearly beneficial, would be far less than the 5,000 families served each year under Advantage, a Bloomberg - era rental subsidy program that ended because of a dearth of state funding.

The city has called on the state Assembly and Senate and Cuomo to change state budget language to allow New York City to use state funds to pay for rental subsidy programs for the homeless.

The stop in shelter openings came just as the homeless population was surging in early 2015, and the de Blasio administration was relying on optimistic estimates of how quickly new rental subsidy programs would slow the flow of people needing emergency shelter.

The city ended its rental subsidy program for homeless families, called Advantage, in 2011 after it lost state and federal funding.

Despite the measure's language, a spokesman for Gov. Cuomo told the Wall Street Journal that the governor is open to discussing the creation of a new rental subsidy program to replace the Advantage program, which was cut in 2011 and caused a surge in the city's homeless shelter population.

A rep for the governor said he has budgeted $ 906 million in homelessness spending, including $ 185 million for rental subsidy programs.

The de Blasio administration and homelessness advocates also fault the elimination of funding in 2011 for the rental subsidy program Advantage — an action they describe as a costly error in judgment on the part of both the administrations of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

De Blasio blamed the problem on former Mayor Michael Bloomberg for cutting a rental subsidy program that kept people in their homes, as well as media coverage and public perception.

While the mayor has often blamed the homelessness problem on former mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, who eliminated a rental subsidy program called Advantage in 2011 after Cuomo cut its state funding, de Blasio did not fault anyone by name in his speech Thursday.

But her candor raised eyebrows when, during the news conference at which Mr. de Blasio announced her new position, she criticized the Bloomberg administration for canceling a rental subsidy program and for «many things» she would have done differently.