Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appealed a court ruling requiring New York City to expand its City Fighting Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Supplement (CityFHEPS) rental assistance program, reversing his campaign promise to drop the lawsuit and implement the expansion. The move comes after negotiations with the City Council and housing advocates failed to yield a compromise before a court-imposed deadline.
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CityFHEPS currently serves more than 65,000 households, allowing tenants, many transitioning from shelters, to pay roughly one-third of their income toward rent while the city covers the remainder. The 2023 City Council laws would have expanded eligibility to those facing eviction but not yet in shelters, raised income thresholds, and removed work requirements. Estimates from the city’s Independent Budget Office suggested the full expansion could add 47,000 households, potentially costing over $4 billion annually by 2030…