Also known as Work Advantage, Advantage was a rental subsidy provided to households that lived in the homeless shelter system for at least 60 days. In order to qualify, at least one adult per family was required to...
The Capital Budget Homeless Housing Program (CBHHP) supported the conversion of city-owned buildings into housing for homeless individuals and families requiring support services. Funding came from the New York City...
The Continuum of Care Program (CoC) is designed to assist individuals (including unaccompanied youth) and families experiencing homelessness and to provide the services needed to help such individuals move into...
The Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) program, formerly the Emergency Shelter Grants Program, is designed to be the first step in a continuum of assistance to prevent homelessness and to enable homeless individuals...
Through the Empire State Supportive Housing Initiative (ESSHI), an inter-agency program, New York State has committed funding in order to create or preserve at least 6,000 supportive housing units. Of the 6,000...
Family Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Supplement (FHEPS) is a rent supplement for families who are moving from homeless shelters to stable housing, or who are in danger of losing their current housing. FHEPS...
The Family Unification Program (FUP) is a special purpose Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher rental assistance...
The Homeless Housing and Assistance Program (HHAP) provides capital grants and loans to non-profit corporations, charitable and religious organizations, municipalities, and public corporations to acquire, construct,...
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program (GPD) is offered annually (as funding permits) by the VA’s Health Care for Homeless Veterans (HCHV) Programs to fund...
The HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program combines Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV)...
Following the ending of the Advantage program (jointly funded by NYS and NYC), the de Blasio administration established the Living in...
The One Shot Deal Emergency Assistance program helps people who cannot meet an expense due to an unexpected situation or event. Emergency assistance is provided for, but not limited to, the following situations:...
Pathway Home is a program that enables families and individuals to move out of shelters by moving in with friends or family members (“host families”). Pathway Home can help these families and individuals...
The Permanent Housing for Homeless Families Program (PHHP) was a joint city/state program funded by capital contributions of $85 million from each source; hence its nickname “85/85.” Fifty-one percent of the...
The Special Initiatives Program (SIP) was a turnkey program to develop vacant city-owned property where either New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) or the New York City Housing...
The Supportive Housing Loan Program (SHLP) provides financing (up to $90,000 per unit) to non-profit organizations to develop supportive housing for homeless single adults, including but not limited to people with...