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Homeless people in New York City with a city-funded housing voucher may move to
an affordable housing apartment building or other housing like this in other
parts of the state after Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday they can be used
anywhere in New York. (AP)
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COUNTIES TO NYC: RESCIND HOUSING VOUCHER EXPANSION

By Kate Lisa New York State
PUBLISHED 9:32 PM ET Sep. 26, 2023 PUBLISHED 9:32 PM EDT Sep. 26, 2023
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County leaders outside New York City are pushing back against Mayor Eric Adams'
decision Tuesday to expand allowing city-funded housing vouchers for homeless
New Yorkers to be used outside the five boroughs — stoking fears an additional
need would push smaller local departments to the brink of collapse.

Adams on Tuesday expanded city-funded housing vouchers issued to homeless people
to allow them to be used anywhere in the state as part of efforts to ease the
homeless population in city shelters. Officials are scrambling to make way for
more asylum seekers as a record number crossed the southern border in the last
month.

"While counties recognize the dire situation the city is facing, we are gravely
concerned that the plan announced today will only exacerbate the affordable
housing crisis that counties across the state are experiencing," state
Association of Counties Executive Director Stephen Acquario said in a statement
Tuesday. "We are also concerned that this action will add additional strain on
county services like mental health, public health, and education, that are
already stretched to the breaking point in many counties."

Acquario said the decision is proof of federal negligence and refusal to address
the migrant crisis, and federal representatives need to provide better
leadership to state and local officials, but added the city must reverse its
expanded housing voucher initiative in the meantime.

"Shifting a problem from one part of the state to another does not solve
anything — it simply creates more problems," Acquario said.

Hochul on Tuesday said the decision will help homeless people in New York City
transition to apartments. She added it would prevent officials from shipping or
forcing asylum seekers to upstate communities, but it doesn't mean that's where
they'll go.

"There's no way of knowing how many [people] that will be, but it's also not
forcing them to go upstate," Hochul said. "This is just one more tool they have
is to open it up."

County leaders are also concerned the change will exacerbate the state's
insufficient supply of affordable housing.

"We have a supply problem, right?" Hochul added. "So it'll be a challenge to
find even available apartments for these individuals. And that's something we're
trying to tackle. I want more housing that's affordable built, and i won't stop
until we do more."





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