NYC Receives Over 250,000 Applications For Section 8 In One Day

By FrumNews.com 

In just 24 hours of opening the registration, NYC has already received over 250,000 applications for the Section 8 Voucher Program—benefitting many in the Frum Kehilla who heard about it on FrumNews.com.

Applications to join the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program’s waitlist, received more than a quarter of a million New York City residents, that had already submitted applications.

This record high number should not surprise anyone, as the city froze applications for 15 years! Undoubtedly, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of eligible applicants, would apply in the city with one of the highest rents in the country.

The program provides rental aid for low-income families. NYC administers the largest Section 8 program in the country. It currently provides rental support to 241,117 New Yorkers to rent apartments in the private market. NYCHA issues these vouchers in a role that is separate from its responsibilities as the nation’s largest public housing authority.

The waitlist had been closed to general applications since 2009. Families in the program are given a voucher when they search for a rental. NYC pays most of the rent on the family’s behalf for any apartment, building, condominium (condo) or home rental in New York City.

Households that receive a voucher will be able to search for housing within the neighborhood of their choice.

Once the application period has closed, 200,000 applications will be randomly selected by lottery. Applicants will then be notified and can check their application status by logging into the Self-Service Portal.

Click Here for the FrumNews.com guide on how to apply for Section 8. 

FrumNews.com would like to remind our readers to only apply if you are legally eligible to!