SNAP and Cash Assistance for NYCHA Residents - Local Law 163
This datasets contains information about SNAP and Cash Assistance, services offered by the Department of Social Services (DSS) to help New Yorkers receive the federally-administered food benefits they qualify for. Using a list of NYCHA addresses, DSS performed a data match with individuals who enrolled in SNAP and Cash Assistance programs. Each row in the dataset represents the number of public housing residents on a Borough-level who receive or utilize this service. For datasets related to other services provided to NYCHA residents, view the data collection “Services available to NYCHA Residents - Local Law 163”.
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Freshness
The publisher's promise
How the agency that publishes this data says it keeps the data current.
Fresh
- Says it updates
- Annually
- Actually updates about every
- —
- Publisher last updated the data
- Nov 5, 2025
Our mirror
Whether our copy of this data is current with the source.
In sync
- We last synced
- Nov 5, 2025, 1:28 PM
- Rows in our copy
- 40
- Rows at the source
- 40
- Our copy trails the source by
- under a minute
Columns
Each source column, with the name and type we use to store it.
1 of 8 columns carry a concept; 8 carry a description from the publisher. Read the concept column before you join. A column with no concept carries no claim from us, and a name that looks like a key is not one.
| Source field | Display name | What the publisher says it is | Concept | Source type | Stored as | Stored type | Row identifier | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
year | Year | Year of the report | Not bound | Number | year | numeric | — | |
were_income_eligible_for | Were income-eligible for SNAP benefits | Number of public housing residents who were income-eligible for SNAP benefits | Not bound | Text | were_income_eligible_for | text | — | |
submitted_applications_for_1 | Submitted applications for benefits under Cash Assistance | Number of public housing residents who submitted applications for benefits under Cash Assistance | Not bound | Text | submitted_applications_for_1 | text | — | |
were_income_eligible_for_1 | Were income-eligible for Cash Assisstance | Number of public housing residents who were income-eligible for Cash Assistance | Not bound | Text | were_income_eligible_for_1 | text | — | |
borough | Borough | There are five boroughs (Manhattan, Bronx, Staten Island, Queens and Brooklyn) in New York City | boroughdeclared | Text | borough | text | — | |
submitted_applications_for | Submitted applications for benefits under SNAP | Number of public housing residents who submitted applications for benefits under SNAP | Not bound | Text | submitted_applications_for |
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Source and attribution
Where this data comes from, which version we hold, and what we changed.
- Source
- https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/ay6v-3gm3
- Version
- Content hash:
cfaa12cf41c45f7aa39e80fd6ed10eb229b6baeed8f4d9954fc0a825fabfbdcb - What we changed
- We did not change the data. We stored it as published.
- Publisher
- codenownyc
- We retrieved it
- Nov 5, 2025, 1:28 PM
Update history
| Started | Kind | Result | Rows written | Produced by |
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| Aug 24, 2026, 9:34 PM | full_replace | success | 40 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.68 |
| Aug 10, 2026, 1:06 AM | full_replace | failed | — | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.55 |
| Aug 9, 2026, 11:36 PM | full_replace | failed | — | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.55 |