Sentences with phrase «shelter allowance»

The welfare shelter allowance falls far below the level needed to obtain adequate housing.

At 12:30 p.m., Assembly members Andrew Hevesi, Michael Blake and Kimberly Jean - Pierre call on Cuomo to pass progressive tax policies, fund the Home Stability Support plan and expand access to the HIV enhanced shelter allowance, Assembly Chamber, state Capitol, Albany.

The current state shelter allowance for permanent housing is $ 215 a month for a single person, which would cover only 16 percent of the cost of a $ 1,300 a month studio apartment.

The Family Eviction Prevention Supplement program will provide additional funding to residents whose rent is above the regular shelter allowance owed to them.

But the think tank also recommends a variety of other measures, ranging from increasing the state's shelter allowance to more funding for rent supports to help low - income residents.

The mayor also asked lawmakers to urge the state to increase the shelter allowance for homeless families, the amount of aid the state provides for families who receive a subsidy under a program called the Family Eviction Prevention Supplement, or FEPS.

ALBANY — Mayor Bill de Blasio may have come to the Capitol on Tuesday to ask state lawmakers for help with affordable housing programs and homeless shelter allowances, but he found himself forced to answer a barrage of questions about an unexpected issue as more than a half - dozen lawmakers pressured him to allow a property tax cap in the city.

12:30 PM — Assemblyman Michael Blake and other Assemblymembers call on Gov. Cuomo to pass progressive tax policies, fund the Home Stability Support plan and expand access to the HIV enhanced shelter allowance, Assembly Chamber, state Capitol, Albany.

Part of the current problem of keeping people in their homes is that a shelter allowance created by the state in 1975 covered the full rents of the vast majority of those on public assistance, but hasn't kept up with the increase in rents over the years, he said.

But simply raising the shelter allowance wouldn't work because it would reduce federally - funded food stamp funding that would offset any rental help and force more people onto public assistance, he said.

Simply raising the shelter allowance wouldn't work because it would reduce federal food stamp funding that would offset any rental help and force more people onto public assistance, he said.

Part of the current problem of keeping people in their homes is that a shelter allowance created by the state in 1975 covered the full rents of the vast majority of those on public assistance, but it hasn't kept up with the increase in rents over the years, Hevesi has said.