§ 11-07 Additional Provisions.
RCNY § 11-07
(a)Households in the Pathway Home Program may be referred to service providers who will help connect them to appropriate services in their communities.
(b)Waitlists will not be maintained for the Pathway Home Program.
(c)HRA will only allow a household to move in with a host family residing in a subsidized apartment on a case-by-case basis.
(d)Shelter residents are responsible for identifying potential host families.
(e)A host family who is receiving Pathway Home payments from HRA is prohibited from demanding, requesting, or receiving any monies, goods or services directly from the household. A host family who demands, requests or receives any monies, goods or services other than the Pathway Home payments for hosting will be required to return any Pathway Home payments to HRA.
(f)Both the host family and the program participant must promptly inform HRA if any new person moves into, or if the entire household or any member of the household moves out of, the host family's residence.
(g)If the household moves out of the host family's residence, the host family must return any payments for any period of time in which the household was not residing in the residence. If one or more members of the household moves out of the host family's residence, HRA will recalculate the Pathway Home payments based on the number of people from the original household who still reside in the residence and the host family must return any overpayments.
(h)Any host family residence must pass a safety and habitability assessment. Additionally: (1) If the household includes a member who is under eighteen years of age, the host family must pass a clearance that shall include, at a minimum, an evaluation of whether any host family member has an indicated child protective history in New York City or is registered as a sex offender pursuant to Article 6-C of the New York Correction Law.
(2)If the host family includes a member who is under eighteen years of age, the household must pass a clearance that shall include, at a minimum, an evaluation of whether any household member has an indicated child protective history in New York City or is registered as a sex offender pursuant to Article 6-C of the New York Correction Law.
(i)If any member of the household has been determined to be eligible for HRA shelter under Section 452.9 of Title 18 of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations, the host family must not include the perpetrator of the domestic violence that resulted in such determination.
(j)The number of eligible households that can be approved for Pathway Home payments under this chapter will be limited by the amount of available funding.
(k)The host family may not include the spouse or domestic partner of any member of the household, or the parent or step-parent of any member of the household who is under twenty-one years of age. This restriction may be waived for good cause.
(l)The household must not have resided with the host family at any point during the prior year, except that the Commissioner, in the exercise of discretion, may allow a household to move into such residence in extraordinary circumstances, including but not limited to where the family was evicted, constructively evicted, or otherwise forced to leave due to the condition of the unit, and the landlord has made all repairs to bring the apartment into compliance with applicable codes; or where the means of ingress and egress are accessible for a person with a disability and/or the apartment unit has structural accessibility features that comport with the needs of a person with mobility disabilities. (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)
