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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Housing assistance and homelessness prevention programs
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Commissioner Park outlines the city's efforts in providing housing assistance and homelessness prevention services, highlighting key achievements and programs.
- In calendar year 2024:
- Over 10,200 households moved out of shelter into permanent housing using CityFHEPS (56% increase from 2023)
- Nearly 15,000 households (31,000+ New Yorkers) obtained or maintained housing using CityFHEPS vouchers
- More than 19,000 households (40,000+ New Yorkers) remained in their homes through homelessness prevention services
- Over 11,000 households (33,000+ New Yorkers) received aftercare services to maintain stable housing
- Affordable Housing Services (AHS) program:
- Set to create at least 1,000 affordable housing units for CityFHEPS voucher holders
- 450+ apartments already opened across six sites in the Bronx and Brooklyn
- 500+ additional units in the pipeline
Molly Wasow Park
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DSS remains committed to connecting New Yorkers to permanent housing and keeping them stably housed.
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This slide outlines the strides we have made over the past year by strengthening our rental assistance programs, providing homelessness prevention services, and levering social service dollars to actually create more affordable housing.
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As a result of this work, DSS has seen record breaking increases in the number of permanent housing placements.
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In calendar year '24, more than 10,200 households moved out of shelter into permanent housing placements using CityFepps.
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That's a 56% increase compared to calendar year '23.
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This number of CityFepps vouchers is only a subset of the nearly 15,000 households comprised of more than 31,000 New Yorkers who were able to obtain permanent housing or stay in their homes using CityFepps voucher, reflecting a 43% increase year over year.
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Through our home based homelessness prevention services in calendar year '24, more than 19,000 households or about 40,000 New Yorkers remained in their homes and more than 11,000 households or about 33,000 New Yorkers received aftercare services from home based to help them stay stably housed.
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And the affordable housing services program, AHS, which is set to create at least a thousand affordable housing units for city FEPS voucher holders exiting, This program remains a significant priority for the agency.
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Through AHS we use social service dollars to help not for profit human service providers either finance the purchase of or long term lease of buildings for use as affordable housing.
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In other words we are actually able to use social service dollars to add to the affordable housing stock.
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We are proud of the progress we've made so far.
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DSS has already opened more than four fifty apartments across six high quality affordable housing sites in The Bronx and Brooklyn in partnership with not for profit providers, and over 500 units are in the pipeline.
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Next slide.
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I now want to take a moment to highlight some of the details on the recent proposed rule change impacting the CitiFepps program.