It's Thursday in New York City, where more than 5,200 households are set to lose their federal rental assistance later this year.
The national Emergency Housing Voucher program, which was created in 2021 to save vulnerable households from being evicted during a global pandemic, was expected to last a decade.
But the Trump administration announced last year that funding for the $5 billion program was already nearly depleted, and there were no plans to replenish the coffers.
Here's how residents and officials in parts of the Bronx, Central Brooklyn and Staten Island's North Shore — some of the neighborhoods most reliant on the vouchers — are responding to the program's imminent end.
And here's what else is happening:
New York City officials are asking landlords who receive public funds to house formerly homeless New Yorkers to stop evicting them, except in the most serious circumstances. (It's unclear how officials would enforce this request.)
The chair of the City Council committee that oversees homeless services said the shelter system needs a "real reassessment" after a Gothamist investigation detailed rising violence and dysfunction at a Brooklyn women's shelter.
A new bill in Albany would try to slow New York City's exodus of artists by making it easier to provide affordable housing preferences for "individuals who are involved in artistic activities."
The MTA said it's preparing a fleet of shuttle buses and warning commuters ahead of a possible Long Island Rail Road workers strike, which could come as soon as May 16.
Park Avenue between the MetLife Building and 57th Street would look more like a park under a new plan released by the Mamdani administration yesterday.
The federal Justice Department is suing New Jersey over a state law banning law enforcement, including ICE agents, from wearing face coverings.
Police said they've arrested a driver who was delivering packages for Amazon and went on a violent rampage in Woodhaven, Queens, last weekend, ramming his van into a car full of women and assaulting four men.
Enrollment is declining in New York City public schools. Experts say this will lead to more angst over decisions to close certain schools.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani appeared to have a cordial interaction with King Charles at a 9/11 memorial ceremony yesterday, though he said beforehand that if they met, he'd "probably encourage" the British monarch to return a crown jewel taken from India.
Meanwhile, a woman whose brother died on 9/11 told the New York Post that she spoke with Charles and Camilla yesterday and they were "down to earth" and "so cool."
More people voted in last year's New York City mayoral election than in any mayoral contest since 1969, according to a new report from the city's Campaign Finance Board.
Upper West Side congressional candidate Jack Schlossberg said he wants to let people deduct their rent from their federal taxes.
Schlossberg also said that Nancy Pelosi, who endorsed him, isn't like the other aging Democrats he's criticized. ("She has magic that doesn't age.")
The Antiquarian Book Fair is the biggest event on the book-collecting calendar. “This is like the Monaco [Grand Prix],” one bookseller said. “This is kind of the glitzy one.”
Brooklyn lawmakers this week decried an MTA plan to close sections of the G train on 10 weekends through the end of the year in order to make upgrades to the line.
