For the first time in 15 years, thousands of people who cannot afford to live in New York City may be able to get financial help through a highly sought-after federal program.
The New York City Housing Authority on Monday reopened a waiting list for housing choice vouchers, a federally funded program also known as Section 8.
Now, that waiting list has dropped to 3,700 households, prompting NYCHA to reopen it.
Vouchers help more than five million people nationwide, but in no place is the program as expansive — and perhaps as needed — as in New York City.
Here, nearly a quarter of a million lower-income New Yorkers rent apartments on the private market using vouchers.
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NYCHA
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