Stay informed of what’s going on in NYCHA's Leased Housing Department through our Owner/Tenant Newsletter. To learn how you can make an appointment for your visit please click here.ĬOVID-19 Guidance & Resources for NYCHA Community NYCHA's Customer Contact Center is excited to re-open it’s Walk-In Centers to assist you with your service needs. Please click here to view NYCHA's current Briefing Deck for Section 8 Voucher Holders searching for apartments Please visit their websites for more information. The New York City Housing Preservation & Development and New York State Homes and Community Renewal also operate Section 8 programs in New York City. Approximately 85,000 Section 8 vouchers and over 25,000 owners currently participate in the program. NYCHA administers the largest Section 8 program in the country. Section 8 participants must comply with all program requirements, including completing their annual certification, accommodating Housing Quality Standards inspections, allowing property owners to make any needed repairs, and adhering to the terms of their lease. This payment to the owner is known as the Housing Assistance Payment. NYCHA pays the remaining amount to the owner on the family's behalf. Generally, families will pay no more than 40 percent of their adjusted monthly income toward their rent share. Eligible families will receive a voucher to begin searching for housing. The program works as a rental subsidy that allows families to pay a reasonable amount of their income toward their rent. Eligibility for this program is based on a family's gross annual income and family size. About Section 8Ĭreated by the Housing and Community Development Act of 1978, the Housing Choice Voucher program, also known as Section 8, provides assistance to eligible low- and moderate-income families to rent housing in the private market. Please navigate to on.nyc.gov/sec8-update for more information. It would be “pointless” if environmental screening required the identification and recording of non-existent risks for the purpose of recording them as non-existent, he said.IMPORTANT program update regarding Section 8 annual recertifications. In failing ETI on this ground of the challenge, the judge said it did not meet its light burden of proof in putting forward its complaint that there existed a risk of cement leaching that would affect a protected area. It submitted to the court that ETI must argue how the protected area’s objectives might be disturbed by alleged cement leaching. The board said it had reached the certainty threshold required in finding the development would not negatively affect protected areas. It claimed that an environmental screening of the proposal contained various inadequacies, including a failure to identify and consider the risk of cement entering the groundwater. In his judgment, Mr Justice Holland held against ETI on its complaint that the board had not ensured that the proposed development would not adversely affect the integrity of the Lower Shannon River, which is a special area of conservation.ĮTI alleged the proposed build would give rise to the leaching of cement and other on-site pollutants into groundwater, which would in turn flow to the protected area’s conservation objectives. The inspector concluded that the proposed development would not adversely affect the integrity of protected areas. She was satisfied that proposed mitigation measures, such as employing a specialist groundwater control contractor to implement a groundwater control scheme, were robust and sufficient to address the concerns. The four to six-storey blocks comprise 30 build-to-rent apartments and 70 further apartments catering for 326 student bed spaces on land at Punches Cross, which is currently occupied by a partially demolished petrol station and other disused buildings.Ī previous application for virtually the same development by the same developer, Cloncaragh Investments Ltd, was refused in 2019 because the board was not satisfied then, beyond reasonable scientific doubt, that it would not negatively affect the integrity of various legally-protected areas nearby.įor Cloncaragh’s subsequent application, An Bord Pleanála’s planning inspector considered third-party concerns about contaminated lands at the site and noted it previously operated as a limestone quarry.
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