Lease Your Apartment: Get $4,300 for renting your apartment Via the City’s Home Support Unit

NYC’s Home Support Unit
The City of New York’s Home Support Unit (HSU) works with landlords, real estate brokers, and property managers across the five boroughs to lease vacant apartments to qualified New Yorkers receiving rental assistance.

This program helps participating landlords and brokers navigate the rental process by arranging viewings and assisting with leasing paperwork, and provides substantial financial incentives to landlords and brokers for placing qualifying tenants into stable housing. HSU also has an in-house Landlord Customer Service team that quickly responds to and resolves payment questions as well as any other issues that arise during tenancy.

Interested in leasing your apartment or room?

By leasing your vacant apartment or rooms through HSU you may be eligible for the following*:

• $4,300 Landlord Bonus
• 15% Broker’s Fee
• Unit Hold Incentive– covers an additional month’s rent when the landlord agrees to accept a DSS/DHS/HRA client and not lease the unit to anyone else during a period of up to 30 days, covering any anticipated vacancy expense.
• First month of rent in full and 3 months of subsidy payments paid up front.
• Security Voucher (equivalent to one month’s rent)
• Access to the Special Supplemental Assistance Fund (SSAF) – covers up to $3,000 in damages and rent arrears (on top of the security voucher)

*These incentives may apply to CityFHEPS, FHEPS, and HOME TBRA apartment rentals; SOTA clients are not eligible. See below for more information about the SOTA program. Additionally, room rentals are eligible for a 15% broker fee, a security voucher, and the SSAF only.

Monthly rents for participating program:

City Fighting Homelessness & Eviction Prevention Supplement (CityFHEPS)
The new City Fighting Homelessness & Eviction Prevention Supplement (CityFHEPS) program replaced the Living in Communities (LINC I, II, III, IV and V) program, as well as the Special Exit and Prevention Supplement (SEPS) and City Family Eviction Prevention and Exit Plan Supplements (CityFEPS) with a single unified rental assistance program to simplify the process of identifying and securing permanent housing opportunities that enable New Yorkers experiencing housing insecurity to exit shelter or avoid entering shelter altogether.

Rooms (Single Individual)	$800
SRO (Commercial)	$1,047
Family of 1	$1,265
Family of 2	$1,323
Family of 3-4	$1,580
Family of 5-6	$2,040
Family of 7-8	$2,291
Family of 9-10	$2,639

Family Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Supplement (FHEPS)
FHEPS was created in 2017 to assist eligible NYC families with children in moving into stable housing.

Studio	$1,265
Family of 1-2	$1,323
Family of 3-4	$1,580
Family of 5-6	$2,040
Family of 7-8	$2,291
Family of 9-10	$2,639

HOME Tenant-Based Rental Assistance Program (TBRA), Section 8/HUD-Veterans Affairs Supporting Housing (HUD-VASH)**

Studio	$1,900
1 Bedroom	$1,954
2 Bedroom	$2,217
3 Bedroom	$2,805
4 Bedroom	$3,006
5 Bedroom	$3,457

Note: For HOME TBRA, Landlord must include heat and hot water.
**Approved rents vary based on local market rent and client/landlord utility contribution.

Special One Time Assistance (SOTA)
The Special One Time Assistance (SOTA) program will pay one year of rent for eligible Department of Homeless Services (DHS) clients to move within New York City, to other New York State counties, or to another state, Puerto Rico, or Washington, D.C. SOTA can be accessed by households with recurring income from employment, Supplemental Security Income, or Social Security Disability benefits and a rent that does not exceed fifty percent of the household’s current income. Rent payments are issued on a monthly basis.

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If you are a landlord or broker who is interested in renting an available apartment or room or would like additional information, please submit your information by following this LINK

You may also call 212-918-8176 Monday through Friday between 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM to speak directly with a Home Support Unit specialist.