The Adams administration is launching a new effort to help more homeless New Yorkers move into stable housing.
The initiative looks to use city housing vouchers to apply to apartments in market-rate buildings at an affordable price.
The city said it will create 1,500 permanent affordable homes by partnering with nonprofits to lease or purchase buildings from private landlords and allow units to be rented to CityFHEPS voucher holders.
More than 10,000 households who have those vouchers currently cannot move out of the shelter system because of the city’s housing affordability shortage.
It all comes as the City Council has threatened legal action over the lack of implementation of new rules that would expand the number of New Yorkers eligible for rental vouchers.
On Wednesday, the Legal Aid Society filed its own lawsuit.
Department of Social Services Commissioner Molly Wasow Park joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Thursday to talk about the new program and more.
“It’s so important to us to be placing our households into permanent housing. Shelter system is great — it’s important to have an emergency option, but permanency is the goal for everybody,” she said.
DSS oversees homeless services and the human resources administration.