The Community Ambassador program, a partnership between the city of Syracuse and the Center for Justice Innovation, has helped more than a thousand tenants remain in safe and stable housing during the past five years, city and program officials say.
Now it faces an uncertain future.
The Common Council is set to vote Tuesday on a measure to appropriate $200,000 already allocated in the city budget to fund the program for the next year. That is about half of the program’s typical yearly operating budget…