Q&A
Statistics on CityFHEPS voucher usage for permanent housing
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Commissioner Park provides detailed statistics on households using CityFHEPS vouchers to move into permanent housing.
- In FY24, 13,400 households leased up using CityFHEPS vouchers, including both community and shelter exits.
- There are currently about 52,000 active CityFHEPS cases.
- Breakdown of active cases:
- 25,643 families with children
- 3,966 adult families
- 22,296 single adults
- The commissioner notes that 'leased up' includes both new housing and using vouchers to stay in current apartments.
Diana Ayala
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estate market.
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Can you tell us how many households moved into permanent housing using CityFast Vouchers in the previous and current fiscal years, and can you disaggregate that by house by household type?
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Yep.
Molly Wasow Park
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So just for f y 24, there were 13,400 households who leased up.
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And I'm using the lease up language very deliberately because that includes both community and and leaving shelter.
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Right?
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So some of those people will use a city voucher to, a city FEPPS voucher to stay in the apartment that they were in.
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So that's that's why I'm using that leased up language at 71100 households to date.
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There are about 52,000 almost 52,000 active city fepps cases.
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Of those, 25,643 are families with children, 3,966 are adult families, and 22,296 are single adults.
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Okay.
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And we can certainly follow-up with you with with detailed data breakouts.