The disparity of two approaches since April has brought rent relief to thousands of tenants in Rochester and Monroe County while the city of Yonkers – without collaboration with Westchester – will soon launch its program to give up to $14.5 million in federal rent aid.
New York state, meanwhile, has yet to reveal when it will make $1 billion available to tenants and landlords in the rest of the state, including 11 counties and 6 cities and towns with population of more than 200,000 which turned over their bountiful allotments of federal emergency rent assistance dollars to the state to administer.
That includes Rockland, Westchester, Dutchess, Oneida and Orange counties.