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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced a new affordable housing protection for low-income New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS. With today’s announcement, New Yorkers who are permanently disabled by HIV/AIDS and receive rental assistance will pay no more than 30 percent of their income toward their rent. Without this protection, more than 10,000 New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS are denied affordable housing and required to pay upwards of 70 percent of their disability income toward their rent.
The city is also about to put in massive amounts of money in new housing for poor people in East New York.
There are government subsidized housing for elderly people, so the OP's mother if she is a senior DOES not NEED Section 8...........People forget that there are other subsidies and other programs, at least some of which are EXPANDING!
The OP's mother could apply for food stamps. The work requirement for them has been CANCELED by the de Blasio administration.
Banks has wasted no time in undercutting welfare reform since Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed him to lead HRA in February. Such a fast start is exactly what one would have expected, given Banks’s previous career at the Legal Aid Society, where he was one of the premier litigants against the city’s welfare-reform efforts. Banks has eliminated the requirement that able-bodied childless adults at least look for work in exchange for their food stamp benefits. He and de Blasio have backed a state law, opposed by the Bloomberg administration, that would allow attendance at a four-year college to count as work for the federal welfare requirements. He has ended the city’s revolutionary initiative to enforce the congressional mandate that immigrants not become “public charges.” Immigrants routinely collect welfare payments in violation of that mandate. The Bloomberg HRA had begun recouping this money from the immigrants’ sponsors, but de Blasio is not just ending that effort, he is giving back the money already collected. And now, as Banks informed the council, he intends to gut the city’s enforcement of other welfare rules as well.
My mom was on the waiting list and then the program was cut off. She has been living with me since then. We need help, the new bldg I live in does not allow ppl to stay and she has no where to go. She is thinking about a shelter, is there no other way in NYC?
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Originally Posted by Please&thankyou
This is real life ppl guys, and you guys are on here making making racist jokes, etc. I hope you never are in this type of situation.
How many accounts are you going to make just so you can reply to your own posts?
You don't have to settle for a shelter when you take care of yourself and stop expecting others to do it for you via government sanctioned theft.
I agree !!!
and public housing is not supposed to be a life long entitlement either, it is for people that are down on thier luck, that need a little help for a while until they get themselves back on their feet, NOT to be lived in until the end of time.
and public housing is not supposed to be a life long entitlement either, it is for people that are down on thier luck, that need a little help for a while until they get themselves back on their feet, NOT to be lived in until the end of time.
Public housing is for poor people to live in till the end of time. It warehouses poor people and defector segregated them from being in better areas. When Chicago tore down its projects, the relocated people turned their new working class neighborhoods into dangerous ghettos and the murder rate of Chicago is 3 times that of NYC. Be glad you don't live in or near a nycha.
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