Yeah I used to work in homeless services and back when Bloomberg was mayor there was actually a pretty good housing voucher program that helped a lot of people get off the street. The state and city shared the expense and landlords generally trusted it and took on these tenants.

But then Bloomberg decided the city was paying too much and tried to play chicken with Cuomo by pulling the city’s portion of funding. Well, Cuomo called his bluff and also pulled the state’s portion of funding effectively killing the program.

So a lot of landlords were suddenly left with people who had no way to pay the full amount of rent. And they haven’t forgotten that experience.

So because of those two egotistical dickheads having a pissing match, landlords are very wary of any government vouchers for rent.