New York City will limit how many homeless families it relocates to Newark under a program that New Jersey’s largest city alleged often left families in uninhabitable or illegal units.
program, sometimes known by the acronym SOTA, New York City pays a landlord rent for one year to house a homeless family.
Under the settlement, New York City will only move 28 families a year, or seven every three months, to homes in Newark. The city also agreed to share landlord information, addresses and inspection records with Newark every quarter. The agreement will drastically reduce the number of families sent to Newark. Data previously obtained by Gothamist shows more than 1,300 families were relocated to Newark in the first four years of the program — the most for any place that received families outside New York City. The data also shows that between 2017-2021, about 50% of the more than 7,500 families who participated in the program were moved to New Jersey, Florida, Georgia, California or other parts of New York state.
Neha Sharma, a spokesperson for New York City’s Department of Social Services, which runs the program, said the settlement affirms the right of homeless families “to choose to relocate to any part of the country to pursue opportunities, including employment, education and stable housing, or reconnect with family outside of the city.”SOTA rolled out in 2017 as a way to alleviate the city’s homelessness crisis by finding permanent housing for families.
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