Meanwhile Back At The Ranch - Section 8 Opens Up (Yonkers: low income, rental)

[BugsyPal]

Thought you affordable/low income housing peeps were on top of these things?


https://www.6sqft.com/the-city-will-...-in-two-years/


https://www.amny.com/real-estate/sec...ion-1.18468788

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by BugsyPal

Thought you affordable/low income housing peeps were on top of these things?


https://www.6sqft.com/the-city-will-...-in-two-years/


https://www.amny.com/real-estate/sec...ion-1.18468788

It has no effect on anybody. Those vouchers are going to people who have been on the waiting list since even before they froze it. No new applicants.

[BugsyPal]

Originally Posted by SeventhFloor

It has no effect on anybody. Those vouchers are going to people who have been on the waiting list since even before they froze it. No new applicants.

Usually the Hasidic communities of Brooklyn and elsewhere grab a very good share......

[Wakanda18]

Less and less landlords are taking section 8

This means nothing really

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by Wakanda18

Less and less landlords are taking section 8

This means nothing really

Not from that aspect, people can take them and move out of state as it is a federal subsidy, so let's see if this actually happens

[NyWriterdude]

Originally Posted by SeventhFloor

Not from that aspect, people can take them and move out of state as it is a federal subsidy, so let's see if this actually happens

Yes, of course it will happen. From time to time they open up the waitlist and give a few more people those vouchers.

[NyWriterdude]

Originally Posted by Wakanda18

Less and less landlords are taking section 8

This means nothing really

Lots of landlords still do in parts of the Bronx, Eastern Brooklyn, Jamaica, and certain parts of Rockaway. And of course you've poor suburbs like Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, parts of Jersey, etc. I'm sure there are low income parts of LI.

[Wakanda18]

Originally Posted by SeventhFloor

Not from that aspect, people can take them and move out of state as it is a federal subsidy, so let's see if this actually happens

I heard they make it a hassle to transfer vouchers out of state. Section 8(NYCHA) is one of the most incompetent run government program.

[Wakanda18]

Originally Posted by NyWriterdude

Lots of landlords still do in parts of the Bronx, Eastern Brooklyn, Jamaica, and certain parts of Rockaway. And of course you've poor suburbs like Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, parts of Jersey, etc. I'm sure there are low income parts of LI.

Most landlords even in Eastern Brooklyn, Bronx, Jamaica etc aren't that desperate. Mind you all these places are still affordable and attracts lower middle class working people who dont have section 8. A rental in canarsie was listed for a week before it was rented out. Anything affordable is in huge demand, even if its far.

Trust me as a landlord, there is a common perception about Section 8 that will make it the last option for landlords. Its not even the people, its the way the program is run itself, nobody wants to deal with the incompetence of city workers.

In that same article they state the city is looking for interested landlords. Good luck with that.

[Kefir King]

Geez, that is almost a third of a THOUSANTH of a percent.
Glory Hallelujah.