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Housing Advocates Press for $32M to Shore Up Older Supportive Housing Contracts
Summary
Advocates urged lawmakers to increase funding for underfunded supportive housing stock (NYSHIP) after testimony that thousands of units built under older contracts lack operating and service funding and are at risk of closure or sale to market-rate developers.
Supportive housing providers and advocates told the legislative human services hearing the state must act to preserve older supportive housing units and ensure operating funding for programs that serve formerly homeless and otherwise vulnerable households.
The Supportive Housing Network of New York and operators including New Destiny outlined a two-track need: (1) build more high-quality supportive housing and (2) preserve and modernize existing units built under older programs. They said roughly 7,000–9,000 units — particularly those funded under earlier…
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