CityLimits: City Cuts Key Incentive For Landlords to Take CityFHEPS Housing Vouchers
In an effort to reduce program costs, landlords will no longer receive one month’s rent as incentive while the city processes housing voucher applications, a change that could make it less likely for property owners to rent to voucher holders.
In a cost-cutting measure, New York City’s Department of Social Services (DSS) will end an incentive for landlords to take city housing vouchers that offered them one month’s rent while the city processes tenants’ applications.
Landlords, advocates, and voucher holders say the change will make using the already hard-to-use vouchers even more difficult.