Private company

New York State Housing Finance Agency

Public-benefit corporation

The New York State Housing Finance Agency (HFA) is a New York State public-benefit corporation created in 1960 to increase the supply of rental housing for low-income people by issuing bonds and providing low-interest mortgage loans to regulated housing companies.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

  • HeadquartersNew York City, United States1
  • Legal formMUNICIPAL3
  • Kind of organizationGovernment entity1
  • LEI5493000LS7KCDB02O5063
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered address3rd Floor, 10022 New York, United States3

The New York State Housing Finance Agency (HFA) is a New York State public-benefit corporation created in 1960 to increase the supply of rental housing for low-income people by issuing bonds and providing low-interest mortgage loans to regulated housing companies. The New York State Housing Trust Fund Corporation (HTFC) focuses on the broader goal of affordable housing development and tends to concentrate on rental housing, the New York State Affordable Housing Corporation (AHC) works to promote affordable homeownership, and the Homeless Housing and Assistance Corporation (HHAC) concentrates s2

Timeline

  1. Apr 18, 1960Founded New York State Housing Finance Agency is founded3

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Money received by year$652.6M 2008–2026
Figures by year
YearFederal grantsOther federal assistanceTotal
2026$18.0M$1.2M$19.2M
2025$14.5M$4.6M$19.1M
2024$18.6M$3.7M$22.3M
2023$35.0M$4.6M$39.6M
2022$82.3M$3.8M$86.1M
2021$73.4M$2.7M$76.1M
2020$30.2M$3.4M$33.6M
2019$20.1M$2.7M$22.8M
2018$23.1M$2.2M$25.3M
2017$700.9K–$700.9K
2016$597.1K–$597.1K
2015$598.9K$38.2M$38.8M
2014$1.2M$36.3M$37.4M
2013$522.4K$61.5M$62.0M
2012–$33.7M$33.7M
2011$5.0M$67.8M$72.8M
2010–$61.1M$61.1M
2008–$1.4M$1.4M

Federal awards

Obligated amounts from USAspending.gov4, by calendar year, 2008–2026, for its registration. Obligations are what agencies committed, not always what was paid out. Contracts pay for goods and services; grants, loans and direct payments are assistance. Loans are charted at the face value of the loans listed here. An award’s amount below is its lifetime total, and some began before the years charted.

Largest grants

  1. Sep 7, 2022$80.3M from Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development: Housing Trust Fund5 To NEW YORK STATE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY Award F22-SG360100
  2. Sep 15, 2021$73.4M from Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development: Housing Trust Fund6 To NEW YORK STATE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY Award F21-SG360100
  3. Nov 13, 2023$34.7M from Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development: Housing Trust Fund7 To NEW YORK STATE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY Award F23-SG360100
  4. Nov 3, 2020$29.1M from Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development: Housing Trust Fund8 To NEW YORK STATE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY Award F20-SG360100
  5. $22.2M from Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development: Housing Trust Fund9 To NEW YORK STATE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY Award F18-SG360100
  6. $19.2M from Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development: Housing Trust Fund10 To NEW YORK STATE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY Award F19-SG360100
  7. Sep 25, 2026$18.0M from Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development: Housing Trust Fund11 To NEW YORK STATE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY Award F26-SG360100
  8. Sep 22, 2025$14.3M from Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development: Housing Trust Fund12 To NEW YORK STATE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY Award F25-SG360100

Largest direct payments

  1. Jan 1, 2007$25.8M from Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing: Lower Income Housing Assistance Program Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation; Lower Income Housing Assistance Program_Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation13 To NEW YORK STATE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY Award NY912MR0730
  2. $11.0M from Assistant Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing Commissioner: Interest Reduction Payments Rental And Cooperative Housing For Lower Income Families; Interest Reduction Payments_Rental And Cooperative Housing For Lower Incom14 To NEW YORK STATE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY Award 01435176
  3. Dec 5, 2011$7.1M from Assistant Secretary for Housing--Federal Housing Commissioner: Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Program15 To NEW YORK STATE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY Award NY36A009001-13Z