I'm looking for any and all benefits [local, state, federal, private] 
available to individuals with dissabilities in NYC - specifically
housing [houses and apartments].

I have an artifical hip, walk with a cane and am 37 yrs old and live
in NYC.  I want to find out what options are available to me -- and I
really can't seem to find a place or person that can truly inform me. 
The websites I have visited have so much information that its actually
overloaded and confusing perhaps you can cut through that for me
please.

Hi! Thanks for the question.

The New York City website provides a good resource of lists of
different city programs that provides benefits and assistance to
disabled people. Our first link gives out detailed explanations of
such benefits.

?City Programs To Assist People With Disabilities?
http://www.nyc.gov/html/mopd/html/programs.html 


Here are other entities providing assistance to the disabled in New York City.

?Additional Barrier Removal?
http://www.nyc.gov/html/mopd/html/housing_abr.html#vesid 

LSNY- an entity providing legal services tot e disabled and to the poor.
http://www.lawhelp.org/program/345/RTF2.cfm?pagename=How%20We%20Do%20Our%20Work&areaid=23


Finally, the next links provides the different benefits physically
handicap people may avail in New York City.

New York City Law
http://www.nyc.gov/html/mopd/html/nyc_law.html

Benefits
http://www.nyc.gov/html/mopd/html/benefits.html 


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