Housing and Property

Search rental listings, apply for housing lotteries, and find other resources to support your housing search.

This program helps low-income households rent or purchase decent, safe housing by providing rental and homeownership assistance.

This program helps middle-income families and seniors find affordable rental and cooperative housing.

SONYMA provides mortgage programs to help first-time homebuyers purchase a home in New York State.

Discover programs that offer low-interest mortgages, down payment assistance, and help with homeownership costs.

Learn how much you can afford to spend on a home, including your maximum purchase price and mortgage amount.

Find resources and programs to help homeowners with repairs, accessibility, energy efficiency, disaster recovery, and foreclosure prevention.

Learn how affordable a solar electric system can be through NY-Sun.

See if you qualify for home energy improvements, like insulation or air sealing, to reduce heating and cooling costs.

Explore general information, frequently asked questions, forms, and fact sheets about evictions in New York State.

Explore the rights and responsibilities of the property owner, tenants, the foreclosing party, and the new owner during foreclosure.

Explore your options for avoiding foreclosure if you are having trouble affording your mortgage payments.

Find answers and get information on housing rights, rent laws, and tenant protections.

Tenants can use NYS Rent Connect to file a complaint, request rent history, submit documents, and report overcharges.

Check the status of your case, search for a rent-regulated building, file an application, find tenant forms, and view rent registration data.

Find information about your local government, property sales and transfers, and school tax rates in New York State.

Homeowners can save on their school property taxes by registering for the STAR program.

Find resources to build, rehab, or adapt multifamily rental housing, including financing programs.

Learn about grants and programs that support affordable housing, neighborhood revitalization, public infrastructure, and economic growth.

Explore resources for developers to advance building efficiency and decarbonization in residential and commercial new construction.

Eligible consumers can get up to $9.25 off the cost of phone, internet or bundled services through Lifeline.

Explore grants and programs to help eligible New Yorkers buy, repair, and improve their homes, including manufactured homes.

See if you qualify for home energy improvements, like insulation or air sealing, to reduce heating and cooling costs.

Find housing assistance by region for unhoused and homeless people requiring support.

The Housing Access Voucher Program (HAVP) provides rental assistance to low-income New Yorkers who are unhoused or at risk of homelessness.

Eligible, low-income New Yorkers can receive free or discounted cell phone service through the federal government LifeLine program.