The new law will allow the state to cover 100% of market-rate rent up from 85% and is aimed at preventing people in New York City from becoming homeless and putting a permanent roof over the heads of people who are. The housing subsidies known as Family Homelessness and Eviction Protection Supplement, or FHEPS, vouchers are currently being given to approximately 12,400 state residents. Under the new law, eligibility will be expanded to cover at least 2,300 more and is being specifically targeted at the the Big Apple, where rents are high and widespread homelessness remains a stubborn reality.
This week, the de Blasio administration announced it was severing ties to the nonprofit homeless shelter provider CORE Services Group, putting an end to a saga set off by a New York Times investigation which found that CEO Jack Brown had paid himself in excess of $1 million a year, hired various relatives and funneled city cash to his own for-profit enterprises.
The outgoing commissioner's agency has recently landed in hot water for outsourcing homeless shelter operations to sketchy companies with histories of self-dealing.
Hired as someone who had worked as a tireless advocate for homeless New Yorkers, Banks wound up overseeing a historic rise in New York City's homeless shelter population.
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