Elected officials, HPD at odds over ‘Downsizing’ for Section 8 tenants
A coalition that includes several Brooklyn officials held a demonstration at City Hall on Thursday against a policy its members say will cause hardships to large numbers of elderly, medically challenged and single-parent tenants of the city’s Section 8 program.
The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is targeting tenants who they say are “over-housed,” or living in an apartment HPD says is too big for that particular tenant.