Supportive Housing Organized and United Tenants (SHOUT!) is a supportive housing tenant and applicant driven organization demanding dignity and rights!
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ALT DOHMH and OMH Must: 1. Stop contracting with bad actors 2. Enforce the supportive housing guidelines as binding requirements 3. Create a meaningful grievance process 4. Hire adequate staff 5. Create a tenant "landing" page 6. Create pathways to exit supportive housing 7. Create pathways to transfer supportive housing programs/providers 8. Conduct mandatory annual review of all program documents 9. Require providers to certify annually 10. Create mandatory pre-discharge and pre-eviction requirements and begin tracking all evictions and exits from supportive housing
ALT Photo of NYC Health Commissioner, Dr. Alister F. Martin testifying to New York City Council Committee on Health.
ALT Text on graphic saying “The New York City Council Progressive Caucus announces Rentals within Reach: an FY27 Budget Proposal”
ALT Photo of Eleanor Roosevelt. Text reads: “Almost exactly 100 years ago, then-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt spoke at the ribbon cutting of the first NYCHA development. She stressed how public housing could reshape the tenement buildings that defined early 20th century life, saying, “for the first time the rentals are within the reach” of the residents who lived in the notorious slums.”
ALT Text reads: “So what’s in it? Today, our City’s in a housing crisis and this vital resource sits in disrepair. Rentals within Reach is a two-pronged effort that brings us back to the promise of publicly-funded housing as a key pillar of our city’s safety net. Number 1: Open NYCHA Units. Our campaign calls for $170M to expedite vacant unit repairs in NYCHA. With a backlog of over 6,000 vacant units, representing more than the entirety of Queensbridge and Red Hook Houses combined, the City currently prepares apartments at a rate of just 390 a month. Council Progressives are calling for the resources necessary to steadily increase that rate to 1,000 a month over the course of Fiscal Year 2027.Just as Mayor Mamdani filled over 100,000 holes in our streets in the first 100 days of his administration, we are calling for that same urgency to meet the ballooning number of NYCHA vacancies.”
ALT “Number 2: Open Supportive Housing Units. Our campaign also calls for $78 million to renovate 1,000 supportive housing units and permanently preserve an additional 325 units. We’re calling for a $13 million flexible expense pot to allow for repairs to HRA and DOHMH units so providers can re-rent. Additionally, we join the Supportive Housing Network of New York in calling for $65.3 million to permanently preserve 325 units.”
