Mayor Eric Adams’ administration will continue to require young homeless people to enter the city’s strained adult shelter system to qualify for housing subsidies, despite laws meant to let teens and young adults get them through youth facilities.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Mayor Eric Adams’ administration will continue to require young homeless people to enter the city’s strained adult shelter system to qualify for housing subsidies, despite laws meant to let teens and young adults get them through youth facilities, youth shelter providers say.
“The Department of Social Services has a duty to the young people it claims to want to help,” said Walker, who has also experienced homelessness and was involved in a years-long effort to pass the bills. City Hall did not answer questions about whether housing vouchers will be issued directly to people in youth shelters. City Hall spokesperson Kate Smart said that residents of youth shelters can currently qualify for CityFHEPS vouchers without entering the city’s adult system. Ahas provided vouchers directly to residents of youth shelters, but is set to end by June.
Powlovich said the laws empower the agencies overseeing youth shelters and the foster care system to issue the vouchers to their clients, but DSS has said they first have to secure additional funding to administer them. More than 70,000 people stayed in city shelters on Jan. 19, including nearly 21,000 single adults, according to the city’s daily shelter census. The DHS shelter population
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