Legal Services NYC has obtained never-before-released internal government audits of the private property managers who run Project-Based Section 8 Rental Assistance (PBRA) in New York City , a program that provides rental assistance to nearly 150,000 New Yorkers citywide. The audits reveal what tenants have long known to be true—that private property managers are routinely failing to administer this program in categories that impact tenants’ quality of life and ability to stay in their homes, including miscalculating rents, missing crucial filing deadlines, and ignoring tenants’ due process rights. Yet, these private property managers receive passing scores through HUD’s audit system year after year, continuing the cycle of mismanagement with tenants paying the price.

“For months,

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