Overview

• NYCHA will transfer about 5,500 households from the expiring Emergency Housing Voucher program into the traditional Section 8 voucher system.
• NYCHA has paused Section 8 waitlist outreach and voucher issuance with no timeline to resume, delaying assistance for roughly 200,000 households on the waitlist.
• HUD notified agencies in March that EHV funding was nearly exhausted, and neither the president nor Congress replenished it in the July budget package.
• Other local agencies, such as NYC’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development, report no unused Section 8 vouchers and cite recent federal clawbacks of reserves that constrain transitions for EHV recipients.
• State officials, including Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office, warn that the funding cutoff could return families to homelessness and say they are assessing potential state responses.