The CityFHEPS program’s expansion, first passed by city lawmakers in 2023, would extend eligibility to people facing eviction and people with more modest incomes, but has been delayed by a debate over its costs.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani declined to include an expansion of the city’s housing voucher program in his executive budget, released Tuesday—instead saying he wants to reform the existing City Fighting Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Supplement, known as CityFHEPS, to make it more efficient.
The program’s expansion, first passed by city lawmakers in 2023, would extend eligibility to people facing eviction and people with more modest incomes, but has been delayed by a debate over its costs.
The punt on the expansion comes during a testy budget season where the mayor said the administration faced a larger than anticipated deficit. As a candidate and mayor-elect, Mamdani had promised to implement the program expansion, something former Mayor Eric Adams had refused to do…