Hundreds of homeless and formerly homeless people who were promised the Department of Homelessness' Advantage housing voucher are uncertain about where they will be living in the next month, now that the voucher has been cut as of March 14th.
People currently living in a shelter or on the streets, who were promised that they would receive a housing voucher on the 14th or had a lease signing on the 14th, are left wondering where they will go and how they will pay for it.
The Department of Homeless Services is telling people currently residing in a shelter who were expecting to move to housing to basically "sit tight," according to an employee of SNAP, the Strategic Neighborhood Action Partnership of Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
As of April 1st, people who are living in a Section 8 apartment will lose their subsidy and asked to either have HRA cover rent, or pay the rent in full.
Why are these cuts happening? What is the city doing to counteract the effects of these cuts? How will these homeless people cope?
