ALBANY – New York City has no obligation to continue rent subsidies under the Advantage program designed to help homeless families and individuals secure permanent housing now that state and federal assistance is no longer available, a deeply divided Court of Appeals held yesterday in a key contractual law case.
The four-judge majority read the city’s “guarantee[d]” commitment to the Advantage housing program as nothing more than an assurance that landlords would receive their rents even if the tenant was stripped of public assistance benefits, which was not the case under a predecessor housing program.
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