Not exact matches
The city ended its
rental subsidy program for homeless families, called Advantage,
in 2011 after it lost state and federal funding.
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will provide funding through its Continuum of Care
Program for onsite social services and
rental subsidies for tenants
in supportive housing units.
A rep for the governor said he has budgeted $ 906 million
in homelessness spending, including $ 185 million for
rental subsidy programs.
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.
Launched «Neighbors for Neighborhoods»
in August 2016, a $ 4 million pilot
program that will enable land banks to provide
subsidies for local community members to take over individual, abandoned properties and convert them into long - term affordable
rental units.
Though the shelter population began to reach historic peaks before de Blasio took office — fueled,
in part, by the end of the Advantage
rental -
subsidy program that stranded people trying to transition, or remain out of, the shelter system — the mayor got hounded (by some, more than others) for his apparent stumbling with the issue.
The administration's proposal follows a former
rental subsidy program, Advantage, which the state stopped funding
in 2011.
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 voucher
program began
in the 1970s as a means of breaking up pockets of poverty and allowing poor recipients to move closer to quality schools and job opportunities by offering
subsidies to be used on the open
rental market.
October 14, 2016 — «The D.C. Council is considering legislation that would provide free legal counsel to low - income tenants
in certain housing cases, including evictions, housing code violations and
rental subsidy program issues.
The Budget also includes $ 10.8 billion for the Project - Based
Rental Assistance program, which supports 12 months of funding for rental assistance contracts with public and private owners who maintain affordable rental housing for 1.2 million families, and $ 6.45 billion in operating and capital subsidies to preserve affordable public housing for 1.1 million fam
Rental Assistance
program, which supports 12 months of funding for
rental assistance contracts with public and private owners who maintain affordable rental housing for 1.2 million families, and $ 6.45 billion in operating and capital subsidies to preserve affordable public housing for 1.1 million fam
rental assistance contracts with public and private owners who maintain affordable
rental housing for 1.2 million families, and $ 6.45 billion in operating and capital subsidies to preserve affordable public housing for 1.1 million fam
rental housing for 1.2 million families, and $ 6.45 billion
in operating and capital
subsidies to preserve affordable public housing for 1.1 million families.