Homeless Rental Coordinator
Homeless Rental Coordinator
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Job Description
About the Agency:
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the citys housing and diversity and strength in the citys 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 10year planned investment in housing to $22 billion the largest in the citys history. This investment coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers is a multipronged strategy to tackle New York Citys 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 Opportunity & Program Services ensures that HPDs affordable housing is made available through fair transparent and accessible programming. Developers creating affordable housing are required to offer many types of units through an open lottery process on NYC Housing Connect and fill other units through a placement process for households in the Citys shelter system. Housing Opportunity & Program Services (HOPS) administers the housing lottery and homeless placements programs and crafts policy and procedures to ensure that these programs offer equal opportunity to all applicants and affirmatively further fair housing.
Your Impact:
The Homeless Rental Coordinator will oversee and facilitate the pathway for a homeless household residing in shelter to enter permanent affordable housing and successfully exit homelessness.
Your Role
As the Homeless Rental Coordinator your role will oversee a portfolio of projects with homeless setasides monitoring vacancies and other project information from their delegated set of sponsors to ensure that the projects are consistently meeting their homeless restrictions. The Homeless Rental Coordinator will be responsible for making appropriate referrals of homeless clients to the building owner. The referral process will involve coordinating with the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) and the NYC Human Resources Administration (HRA) to ensure the timely leaseup of homeless units. The Homeless Rental Coordinator will report to a Homeless Rental Team Leader.
Your Responsibilities:
Establishing and maintaining effective communications with the Department of Homeless Services the Human Resources Administration various divisions of HPD housing developers and other external partners
Gaining an understanding of the regulatory terms pertaining to homeless set aside units and client eligibility criteria for these units
Obtaining timely information from developers to document their compliance with the homeless restrictions of their projects
Maintaining accurate tracking of the available units in your portfolio and the status of pending client referrals
Preferred skills
Basic knowledge of affordable housing programs and homeless services
Ability to work well on teams and independently. Strong interpersonal skills
Experience with MS Excel and other MS Office programs
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Qualifications :
1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties described above; or
2. High school graduation or equivalent and six years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties as described above; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have at least one year of experience as described in 1 above.
Additional Information :
The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
