More than 5,000 low-income New York City households face an impending deadline as a pandemic-era federal housing voucher program runs out of money.
Tenants with federally funded Emergency Housing Vouchers have just over two weeks to apply for another source of aid. The New York City Housing Authority is now turning to its stock of vacant public housing apartments as it scrambles to plug the gap.
NYCHA has begun notifying tenants with the soon-to-expire subsidies that they have until May 1 to apply for a “range of subsidized housing options, including public housing and other programs,” according to a letter dated March 25 and shared with Gothamist by renters and landlords…