Mayor Zohran Mamdani is scaling back his campaign promises to support tenants and homeless New Yorkers by failing to expand the CityFHEPS program, tenant and shelter advocates said during a rally at City Hall on Tuesday.
Funding for CityFHEPS (City Fighting Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Supplement), a rental assistance program, was rolled back to $1.64 billion in the mayor’s preliminary budget last month, which advocates said is “far less” than required for expansions codified by the NYC Council in 2023.
