Via POLITICO

City looks to create subsidized housing through vouchers
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The #Adams administration is launching a new initiative that aims to use #CityVouchers for #homeless #NewYorkers to create #SubsidizedHousing in market-rate buildings.

Under the program first reported by #POLITICO, nonprofits contracting with the city can #lease buildings from private landlords for up to nine years, before renting those apartments to #CityFHEPS voucher holders.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/08/new-york-subsidized-housing-vouchers-00140383

City looks to create subsidized housing through vouchers

The city is aiming to use vouchers to convert market-rate buildings to subsidized housing for New Yorkers exiting homeless shelters.

POLITICO
Liberals called to address lagging social housing stock | CTV News https://bit.ly/3OG16iS #SocialHousing #Toronto #SubsidizedHousing #AffordableHousing #cdnpoli @canadiangreens @cdnpoli
Canada's social housing stock lags peer countries. Liberals called on to bridge gap

If a single mother with a newborn baby starts looking for city-subsidized housing in Canada's largest urban centre today, she might see her child enter high school before they find a new home.

CTVNews
Out of state properties group trying to pull a fast one with low-income housing.
"Casa Rufina Apartments is owned by Oregon-based PacifiCap Properties Group, which built the 100-unit complex with $1 million in Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, according to a 2007 story in The New Mexican. Robyn Avila, an area manager for the company, declined to speak about the issue or to give details about affordable housing options at the complex."
#AffordableHousing #SubsidizedHousing #Fraud #Greed
Subsidized housing in Armstrong, B.C. waiting for heating to be fixed

The management of Three Links Lodge says replacement equipment will soon be installed and residents have been provided with space heaters.

Global News

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🟢 #FULLTIMERV #POVERTY: Been living full-time in an RV since October 2021. NOT BY CHOICE, had to move and couldn’t afford to rent anything in #nanaimo. We need #UBI #affordablehousing #subsidizedhousing #morethan375