{"id":297,"date":"2024-02-08T14:07:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=297"},"modified":"2024-02-12T14:13:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T14:13:51","slug":"brooklyn-councilmember-criticizes-adams-on-housing-vouchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2024\/02\/08\/brooklyn-councilmember-criticizes-adams-on-housing-vouchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn councilmember criticizes Adams on housing vouchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=297&amp;action=edit\">NY1<\/a> &#8211; Democratic Councilmember Shahana Hanif said the city needs to take action when it comes to providing housing for all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe administration just does not want New Yorkers to be happy \u2014 plain and simple,\u201d she told NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on \u201cInside City Hall.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the City Council granted Speaker Adrienne Adams the power to take legal action against the Adams administration for refusing to implement changes to the city\u2019s voucher assistance program, known as CityFHEPS.<\/p>\n<p>The laws would expand access to the voucher program for low-income New Yorkers and help subsidize their rent.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Adams\u2019 office says the changes are too costly and will increase competition for housing [<a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=297&amp;action=edit\">Read More<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=297&amp;action=edit\">NY1<\/a> &#8211; Democratic Councilmember Shahana Hanif said the city needs to take action when it comes to providing housing for all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe administration just does not want New Yorkers to be happy \u2014 plain and simple,\u201d she told NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on \u201cInside City Hall.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the City Council granted Speaker Adrienne Adams the power to take legal action against the Adams administration for refusing to implement changes to the city\u2019s voucher assistance program, known as CityFHEPS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2024\/02\/08\/brooklyn-councilmember-criticizes-adams-on-housing-vouchers\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}