Judge Halts NYC Plan to Stop Paying Landlords to Hold Apartments

A Manhattan judge on Thursday prohibited New York City’s social services department from rescinding its policy of paying landlords to hold apartments while rental assistance papers are processed for homeless clients.

The Department of Social Services indicated it will put its plan through the notice-and-comment process as laid out under the City Administrative Procedure Act, according to New York Supreme Court Justice Lyle Frank. The city is enjoined from getting rid of its policy until “such time as any new rules are implemented” through notice-and-comment, he added.

The order resolves, for now, a class action filed in June by housing ...