Public housing tenants excluded from the state’s $3 billion rent relief program are urging lawmakers to allot a new pot of money to cover arrears in the upcoming state budget — or risk a wave of evictions among some of New York’s lowest-income residents.
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They plan to rally for relief funding in the upcoming state budget outside the Johnson Houses in East Harlem at noon on Sunday. “We remain hopeful that our tenants will be treated like their friends and neighbors who were afforded this COVID-related relief,” Bova-Hiatt said in a statement on Saturday.
if there was money left over after reimbursing landlords of privately owned buildings. The tapped-out fund has so far issued just over $3 billion, with tens of thousands of landlords still waiting for cash.
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