Sanchez clarifies shelter population eligibility thresholds
Addressing press misunderstandings, Sanchez explains that eligibility is largely intact: families and adults in shelter earning above 200% FPL and below 50% AMI qualify, with expanded access to runaway homeless youth, DYCD shelter residents, HPD shelter residents, and MACJ shelter residents.
There has been some misunderstandings in the press, so I want to just spell out some of what is in this legislation in terms of eligibility.
Eligibility is largely kept intact, so we are expanding access to
To this new voucher program for families and adults in shelter who earn above 200 FPL and below 50% of AMI.
So what that means is that we're keeping the increased income threshold from the 2023 laws.
We're also expanding access to runaway homeless youth, those people, folks living, our young people living in DYCD shelters, those who are living in HPD shelters, and those who are living in MOCJ, MACJ shelters.
So there has been no cutting of eligibility for folks in shelter.