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Governor Hochul Releases SFY 2025 Executive Budget

The Governor released the SFY 2025 Executive Budget on January 16th, totaling $233 billion (a 4.5% increase in spending). The Network is continuing to review the details and will follow up as any additional information is revealed.

Mayor Adams Releases FY 2025 Preliminary Budget

On January 16th, Mayor Adams released the FY 25 Preliminary Budget, totaling $109.4 billion-- $2 billion less than the current fiscal year.

2023 Tenant of the Year Nominee Celebration

On Thursday, January 25th the Network joined tenants nominated for the Network’s 2023 Outstanding Tenant of the Year award with supportive housing staff at Robin Hood Foundation’s headquarters.

SROs Now Eligible For HCR's Supportive Housing Preservation Program

The Network is pleased to report that Governor Hochul and New York State Homes and Community Renewal have clarified that Single Room Occupancy supportive housing residences are eligible for the state’s Supportive Housing Preservation Program. $50 million in capital will be specifically dedicated to this effort. This funding may be used to upgrade SRO housing into studio apartments if practical. If not, a waiver of the design guidelines may be requested. The Network urges our members with this type of housing to check out the term sheet.

CAMBA Housing Ventures and CAMBA

Break Ground on Clarkson Estates

On December 5th partners, funders, staff, and friends gathered under a tent on the grounds of what will be CAMBA Housing Ventures/CAMBA’s Clarkson Estates in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, to break ground on the project which is part of the State’s Vital Brooklyn initiative. Once complete, this project will provide 328 units of permanently affordable and supportive housing with 50% of the units (164 units) set aside for formerly homeless populations, including youth aging out of foster care, formerly incarcerated individuals, formerly homeless young adults, and formerly homeless families.

The Network Testifies at Two NYC Council Hearings

On December 7th, the Network’s Associate Director of Engagement and Communications Joelle Ballam-Schwan testified at the City Council oversight hearing on supportive housing held jointly by the Committees on General Welfare; Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction; Housing and Buildings; and Veterans.

The Network Testifies at New York State Assembly Hearing on Housing

On December 18th, the Network’s Executive Director Pascale Leone testified at the New York State Assembly Standing Committee on Housing to advocate for modernizing the 30+-year old New York State Supportive Housing Program (NYSSHP) whose rates have remained essentially the same since inception. Pascale explained that the chronic underfunding of NYSSHP has left 9,000 units of supportive housing at risk and proposed the simple solution of converting these units to New York State’s better-funded Empire State Supportive Housing Initiative (ESSHI) through a five-year, phased-in approach. This plan would eventually create fiscal parity among supportive housing units across New York.

The Racial Equity in Supportive Housing Workgroup Celebrates Second Readying Emerging Leaders in Supportive Housing Cohort Graduation

On December 15th, the Racial Equity in Supportive Housing (RESH) Workgroup celebrated the second Readying Emerging Leaders in Supportive Housing (RELISH) Cohort Graduation ceremony at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. The 24-week RELISH mentorship program was created in 2022 by RESH, a volunteer affinity group made up of Black leaders at half a dozen nonprofit organizations. RESH’s mission is to advocate for policies and practices that advance racial and wage equity and improve the quality of life for Black people connected to the supportive housing sector.

Reimagining NYC 15/15: A Comprehensive Reallocation Plan to Save New York City’s Supportive Housing Initiative

Eight years into the City’s landmark NYC 15/15 Initiative which promised to create 15,000 units of supportive housing in 15 years – 7500 single site and 7500 scattered site -- only 17% of the scattered site units have been awarded. The Network published this analysis of the current barriers to creating housing in today’s market as well as recommendations as to how to re-allocate funding for the currently unusable 6220 scattered site units to ensure the initiative meets its goals of creating and preserving as much supportive housing as quickly as possible.