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 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.
The city ended
its rental subsidy program for homeless families, called Advantage, in 2011 after it lost state and federal funding.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
Among them, a proposed
rental subsidy program that would serve 801 families annually,
for a total of 3,204 families over three years.
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.
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.