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Testimony: NYLAG Demands Transparency in Administration of Section 8 and Emergency Housing Voucher Program
Testimony: NYLAG Demands Transparency in Administration of Section 8 and Emergency Housing Voucher Program
- September 29, 2025
- 11:13 am
Anna Luft, Director of NYLAG's Public Housing Justice Project, testified on Sept. 29 before the New York City Council on the need for transparency in the administration of Section 8 and the Emergency Housing Voucher Program - especially as funding for the EHV Program approaches expiration.
The Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) program has had a significant impact on the clients and communities NYLAG serves across all of our practice areas. For individuals experiencing poverty, survivors of domestic violence, people facing medical hardships and crises impacting their stability, and people experiencing homelessness, Emergency Housing Vouchers provide a lifeline: crucial housing stability during some of the most vulnerable period in our clients' lives.
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Subsidized housing vouchers are a critical pathway to stable and healthy housing and provide a crucial foundation for tenants to obtain a sense of safety for their families or consistent employment.
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City Council must call on HPD to publicly publish its plan for the people enrolled in its Emergency Housing Voucher program. Recipients and advocates deserve to know what will happen so they can plan accordingly. If HPD's plan is anything less than an immediate transfer to the Housing Choice Voucher program, it will come with a significant disruption in subsidy and will destabilize voucher holders and their families.
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