Amid the city's ongoing homelessness crisis, exacerbated by some 24,600 migrants who've come here since May, Mayor Eric Adams' administration announced Monday it's taking several actions aimed at getting more homeless New Yorkers into permanent housing.
The actions include making thevoucher program more accessible and easier to use as well as a new pilot program – dubbed “Street to Housing” – that intends to place up to 80 homeless adults living on the street into permanent housing. The city will also be opening up its housing mobility programs, which seeks to expand the neighborhoods those with federal housing vouchers can rent in, to be available to many more families.
While New York City is the only municipality in the country that offers its own rental assistance vouchers, Adams said, many people still find the CityFHEPS program difficult to access and navigate. “We know that many of these programs are not sufficiently flexible,” he said. “They are bound by too many restrictions that prevent homeless individuals and families from using them and actually getting into permanent housing. We know that in some cases, getting a voucher has been kind of a false promise to people who are homeless because they have been difficult to use.”
The city will also be covering application fees for those living in city Department of Homeless Services shelters. “When a person is identified on the subway or on the street, we bring them to one of our welcome centers in DHS,” Jenkins said. “They’re going to spend some time there, like a week. We’re going to do a survey and we’re going to address those individuals and see what their specific needs are. If they elect to go to one of the vacant supportive housing units, then we’re going to work with them.
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