About the Agency:
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city's housing, and diversity and strength in the city’s neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.
- We maintain building and resident safety and health
- We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability
- We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.
HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of “Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness,” Mayor Adams’ comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work, the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion—the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s complex housing crisis, by addressing homelessness and housing instability, promoting economic stability and mobility, increasing homeownership opportunities, improving health and safety, and increasing opportunities for equitable growth.
Your Team:
The Office of Housing Access and Stability (“HAS”) consists of the divisions of Housing Opportunity, Tenant and Owner Resources, Housing Stability, Budget and Program Operations, and Program Policy and Innovation. The mission of the office is to ensure fair, efficient, and transparent access to affordable housing. The Office provides subsidies, placement services, and tools that connect New Yorkers to affordable housing and ensures vulnerable households in subsidized housing have the support they need to be safely housed. Housing Access is committed to expanding housing choices, affirmatively furthering fair housing, and stabilizing the financial health of buildings.
The Division of Housing Stability helps to ensure that formerly homeless tenants entering affordable housing (supportive and non-supportive) and owners of such housing have the necessary tools to successfully transition tenants into their new homes and maintain their tenancy. It administers and monitors project-based rental assistance contracts, including ~$50MM in Continuum of Care (CoC) rental assistance, Section 8 Project Based Vouchers, and NY 15/15. The unit also manages HPD’s role in the NYC CoC, oversees HPD’s Housing Retention and Stabilization programs, and works to secure funding to expand these services to a broader scope of households.
The Division of Housing Stability helps to ensure that tenants entering affordable housing (supportive and non-supportive) have the tools they need to successfully transition into their new homes and maintain their tenancy.
The Continuum of Care (CoC) team within Housing Stability is the grantee/recipient of 44 Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grants. These grants provide project-based rental assistance for permanent supportive housing projects that are operated by non-profit agencies/subrecipients.
Your Impact:
The Homelessness Prevention Program (HPP) seeks to prevent the unnecessary termination of subsidy for elderly and/or disabled Section 8 participants by referring cases to one of three Community Based Organization(CBO) partners for one-on-one outreach and assistance. Last calendar year, the HPP program referred approximately 9,000 cases to our three CBO partners.
Your Role:
The HPP Program Assistant, housed in the Division of Housing Stability will support the Program Manager in the following capacities:
· Twice Weekly prioritization analysis of S8 Pre-Termination Reports (Excel Formatted) to identify tenants at highest risk of subsidy termination and to delegate appropriate number of referrals for each CBO to outreach/assist.
· Timely Twice Weekly Entry of Pre-Termination and other HPP Referrals to CBOs in TAAG system. This task allocates the required number of referrals (based on capacity) for each of the three CBOs in the program. The process requires additional document retrievals in DDMS to be uploaded to TAAG referrals.
· Assist with additional referrals including requests for support with HQS challenges and Move/Port requests.
· Occasional assistance with Bi-Monthly Invoice approval, which involves confirming CBO back up to invoice charges.
Preferred Skills:
- Proficiency with excel spreadsheets
- Highly organized and detail oriented
- Experience with or ability to learn TAAG & Elite
- Familiarity with Section 8 program a plus
How to Apply:
Please email your resume and cover letter to the following inbox: [email protected]
Salary range for this position is: $29.12 per hour.
NOTE: Only those candidates under consideration will be contacted.
Job Types: Full-time, Temporary
Pay: $29.12 per hour
Work Location: In person
