Monthly reports on emergency housing assistance usage in New York City, as mandated by Local Law 79 of 2022 and Local Law 136 of 2024. The data is provided by the City of New York and covers metrics on assistance utilization, applications, and exits from city-administered facilities, including domestic violence and tier II shelters. The dataset was last updated on March 8, 2026.
Use Cases
- Monitor monthly trends in emergency housing assistance applications based on the mandated reporting metrics.
- Analyze utilization rates of multi-agency emergency housing assistance as required by Local Law 79.
- Track exits from City-administered temporary housing facilities over time.
- Assess the impact of Local Law 136 on reporting for domestic violence and tier II shelters.
Strengths
- Data is mandated by specific local laws (79/2022 and 136/2024), ensuring a consistent reporting framework.
- Provides a monthly overview, allowing for temporal trend analysis.
- Covers multiple types of emergency housing, including domestic violence shelters.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- City of New York
- Collection Method
- Administrative reporting by city agencies as codified in the NYC Administrative Code.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-08 02:37:20.480827; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- New York City