Dear New Yorkers,
At the end of this month, dozens of families displaced since Hurricane Ida are set to be thrown out of their Lower Manhattan hotel.
The 70 families still at the Millennium Downtown hotel on Church Street got letters under the doors of their rooms three weeks ago, saying their last day will be Feb. 28 because Federal Emergency Management Agency funding ran out at the end of 2022.
The city had been footing the hotel bill since January, but is now pulling the plug.
Mirmahfuz Ahamed Sayeduzzaman is living in the hotel with his wife, two sons, and his elderly mother after being displaced from their Woodside apartment during the intense 2021 storm that killed 13 New Yorkers.
He said a housing advisor or “navigator” from a city-funded nonprofit told him to just go into a homeless shelter, since their family was too big to find an apartment. But the city already approved his family for a four-bedroom apartment voucher.
“I haven’t seen any apartments,” the 47-year-old home health care worker said. “They’re just playing with us.”
Read more here.
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- Six young people on the verge of escaping homelessness are now suing a Bronx landlord for allegedly discriminating against them for using housing vouchers after the property owner approved them as tenants, then abruptly rescinded the offer.
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