Housing & Real Estate Active Updated Aug 19, 2026
The eviction aid denials
New York City's One-Shot Deal emergency rent-arrears program, meant to prevent evictions, denied roughly three-quarters of nearly 30,000 requests between January and March 2026, a rate essentially unchanged from Eric Adams' final months despite Mayor Mamdani's campaign promise to stop evictions. The denial rate has climbed from 62% in 2022 to about 75% now even as applications nearly doubled, and tenant lawyers say incomplete applications are automatically denied after 30 days.
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Aug 19, 2026 Latest
The city denied roughly three-quarters of nearly 30,000 One-Shot Deal rent-arrears requests between January and March 2026, up from a 62% denial rate in 2022, even as Mamdani had campaigned on stopping evictions; the city spent $555 million on emergency rent aid including One-Shot Deals in fiscal 2025, Gothamist reported.
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