Instead of requiring homeless New Yorkers to compile paperwork for housing while living on the streets or in shelters, a unique city program is placing people in apartments where they can work on applications.
, forcing would-be tenants to compile reams of income records, housing documents and health histories, Cruceta and her colleagues said. The documents are meant to ensure people qualify for supportive housing, and that providers, along with affordable housing investors, get paid.
Seven months into the “Street-to-Home” pilot program, the project has already connected nearly 60 once-homeless New Yorkers with private apartments.“It feels like home,” Riordan said. “I feel like I belong, and I like to belong.” Riordan said she now has a place to arrange her stuffed animals, with pride of place for a bear and elephant symbolizing her relationship with a longtime boyfriend who died a few years ago.
He said he decided to take an outreach worker up on an offer of a bed in a shelter last October after years of hunger, cold and chronic fear became insurmountable.
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