FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 18, 2022
Senator Kavanagh, Assemblymember Cymbrowitz, Elected Colleagues, Housing Advocates Hold Press Rally to Call for $250 Million Housing Access Voucher Program To Be Included in NYS Budget Due March 31.
New York, NY – Senator Brian Kavanagh and Assemblymember Steven Cymbrowitz, chairs of the Senate and Assembly Housing Committees, will be joined by elected colleagues and housing advocates to call for the State budget, to include $250 million in funding for the Housing Access Voucher Program (HAVP), proposed in bill S2804B/A3701, authored and first introduced by Senator Kavanagh and Assemblymember Cymbrowitz in 2020. The funding was included in both the Senate and Assembly budget resolutions passed on March 14th. Three-way negotiations are now underway among the Governor, the Senate, and the Assembly toward adopting a final budget by March 31st.
In January, Governor Kathy Hochul unveiled her record-setting budget proposal, calling it a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” for the state. The homelessness and eviction crises have represented a profound failure in New York’s efforts to provide for people’s most basic needs for decades now. Creating a new, comprehensive, statewide rental assistance program would truly be a once-in-a-generation opportunity to end homelessness in the state of New York. The initial funding would house about 20,000 households in the first year of the program.
Who: State Senator Brian Kavanagh
Assemblymember Steven Cymbrowitz
Elected Colleagues
Housing Advocates
What: Press Conference Calling for $250 Million for Housing Access Vouchers
When: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 10:30 am
Where: Million Dollar Staircase, NYS Capitol, Albany, NY
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