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The SOTA program provides one year's full rent up front for eligible DHS clients to move within New York City, to other New York State counties, or to another state, Puerto Rico, or Washington, DC. SOTA can be accessed by working individuals and families and those who receive SSI, SSD, etc. as long as there is the future ability to make rent payments based on the household's rent not exceeding 50% of the household's income.
Eligibility criteria include the following:
- Families with children: The household must have been in shelter for at least 90 days.
- Single adults and adult families: The household must have been in shelter for 90 days out of the last 365 days.
- The household must be working and/or have enough income to make future rent payments based on their rent not exceeding 50% of household income.
- Income includes employment or SSI, SSD, etc.
Don't send your homeless/poor down here to mooch! Send them to a state with a low population, like Utah, Montana, the Dakotas, or those cold New England states.
Don't send your homeless/poor down here to mooch! Send them to a state with a low population, like Utah, Montana, the Dakotas, or those cold New England states.
They're not 'mooching,' there are requirements to be able to pay rent after the year. Did you read the list above?
A program to help people get established in communities where it's more realistic for them to be able to successfully support themselves on a low income (COL index of ~89 as opposed to ~163)
I’m confused about the income requirement. Unless it’s from a federal source (SSI, SSD, etc) how would it be sustainable to pay rent for a year? I’m assuming traditional employment most likely wouldn’t be portable.
Cheap clothes or a $3,000 car gets the cops called on you in NC...
I don't understand this. I buy clothing at Goodwill. My 1985 Toyota is worth much less than $3K. Am I in trouble?
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