Rental Assistance Info
Rental Assistance to help pay rent arrears is available from the Human Resources Administration (HRA).

HomeBase Homeless Prevention Program
HomeBase is designed to help individuals and families avoid the trauma of homelessness by helping overcome the immediate problems and obstacles that could result in the loss of housing. Program services are crafted to meet the unique needs of each individual or family, and to help meet the demands of maintaining a household. Currently, the HomeBase program is available to individuals or families in six community districts - Mott Haven/South Bronx (CD1), East Tremont (CD6), Bedford Stuyvesant (CD3), Bushwick (CD4), East Harlem (CD11), and Jamaica (CD12).

HASA Housing Services
The Human Resource Administration's HIV & AIDS Service Administration (HASA) provides emergency, transitional, permanent housing assistance, and rental assistance services to individuals and families with AIDS.

HEAP
The NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance administers the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP), which may help offset some home heating costs.

Anti-Eviction Legal Services
The Department of Homeless Services contracts with several non-profit anti-eviction legal services providers. If you are in need of assistance, contact a provider in your home borough:

Victims of Domestic Violence
If you have been the victim of a recent incident of domestic abuse, you have the following options:

Call 911 if you are in an emergency situation.

If you require emergency shelter (domestic violence shelter), or need help figuring out the options, call the NYC Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-621-HOPE (TDD 800-810-7444).

• Crime Victims Hotline 212-577-7777
• Rape & Sexual Assault Hotline 212-227-3000
• Department of Youth and Community Development's Domestic Violence Awareness and Intervention page
• A list of non-residential DV services (pdf) can be found on the HRA Web site

Department of Homeless Services Intake Centers
If you are in need of immediate emergency housing, you should go to a family or single adult shelter intake center.

Families
The Path Office is the intake center for families in need of emergency housing. The Path office is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week:

Prevention Assistance and Temporary Housing (Path) Office
346 Powers Avenue
Bronx, NY 10454

Adult Families with No Children Under 21
Adult families with no children under 21 should go to the Adult Family Intake Center (AFIC), located in Manhattan. AFIC is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Adult Family Intake Center (AFIC)
29th Street and 1st Avenue
Manhattan, NY 10016

Single Adult Women
There are three intake centers for single adult women in need of emergency housing:

Brooklyn Women's Shelter
116 Williams Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Franklin Shelter
1122 Franklin Avenue
Bronx, NY 10456

Jamaica Armory (Women)
93-05 168th Street
Jamaica, NY 11434