§ 11-03 Eligibility.
RCNY § 11-03
(a)To be eligible for Pathway Home, a household must meet one of the following eligibility requirements: (1) The household resides in DHS shelter; (2) The household is street homeless; (3) The household includes an individual with a significant prior stay in DHS shelter who was discharged from the custody of the New York City Department of Correction, and the Commissioner has determined that Pathway Home is needed to avert the individual's re-entry to a DHS shelter; or (4) The household includes a pregnant person who presents at DHS’ Prevention Assistance and Temporary Housing (PATH) intake center and is selected to participate in the CRIB Pilot. A random number generator will be used to assign pilot-eligible households to one of three groups: control, CityFHEPS or Pathway Home. A household that is eligible for NoVA services is not eligible for participation in the CRIB pilot program. For purposes of this section, the term “NoVA services” means the program that assists domestic violence survivors seeking emergency housing from the department of homeless services by providing assessment, crisis counseling, shelter referral and placement in shelters.
(b)Households must meet all of the additional eligibility requirements set forth below: (1) The household must have total gross income that does not exceed 200 percent of the federal poverty level as established annually by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
(2)If the household is not currently in receipt of PA, the household must apply for any assistance available under Part 352 of Title 18 of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations that HRA has determined the household may be eligible for.
(3)All members of the household who are eligible for PA must be in receipt of PA.
(4)If the household is currently in a DHS family shelter, the household must be eligible for shelter as determined by DHS pursuant to Parts 351 and 352 of Title 18 of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations, except if the household is eligible pursuant to 68 RCNY § 11-03(a)(4).
(5)HRA must not have previously made Pathway Home payments on the household's behalf.
(6)The household must have identified a host family, who live in the City of New York, that has agreed to permit the household to reside in its residence and to receive a monthly payment from HRA on the household's behalf that does not exceed the amounts set forth in the table in 68 RCNY § 11-04.
(7)The host family and the host family's residence must meet the requirements of 68 RCNY § 11-07(h).
(c)Applications must be submitted on a form and in a format established by HRA.
(d)At the time of approval, HRA will calculate the household's Pathway Home payments pursuant to 68 RCNY § 11-04. Payments will be approved for one year and, except as provided in 68 RCNY § 11-05 and 68 RCNY § 11-07(g), the payments will not change during the household's participation in the program.
(e)Eligible households may also have a CityFHEPS shopping letter pursuant to 68 RCNY § 10-04(c). (Added City Record 10/16/2018, eff. 11/15/2018; amended City Record 10/28/2021, eff. 11/28/2021; amended City Record 8/14/2025, eff. 9/13/2025)
