A recent survey by the Supportive Housing Network of New York found that 10 percent of the city’s apartments for homeless housing are sitting empty,
A “bureaucratic nightmare” has left 2,500 city-funded apartments for homeless New Yorkers who need mental healthcare and other social services open — enough units to house every person living on the streets or in the subways, The Post has learned.
“Getting an applicant into supportive housing is a bureaucratic nightmare,” added Kathleen Cash, an advocate at the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project. As many as 2,500 city-funded apartments for homeless New Yorkers who need mental healthcare and other social services have been left open and empty.Those subway- and street-dwelling homeless would not necessarily get placed in the available apartments, but people in homeless shelters would, and that would make more room in overcrowded congregate shelters for those street homeless.
The estimate was revealed through a recent survey by the Supportive Housing Network of New York, which represents social service providers.Activists, landlords and nonprofit social service providers say a major cause of the bureaucratic logjam is that HRA has no system to automatically match homeless New Yorkers to available units for which they are eligible.
The Human Resources Administration confirmed the survey, noting it is working to fill the empty units.The delays and frustrations are worst when it comes to re-leasing supportive units after the initial tenant departs, the sources said. Homeless New Yorkers living in the city’s embattled shelters typically face an average wait time of more than 480 days for an apartment.Efforts to computerize the entire process have been repeatedly delayed because of budget issues, said Hernandez, whose organization is part of a municipally-sanctioned task force to recommend improvements to HRA’s computer systems.
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