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Live in One of 44 NYCHA Developments? Jobs-Plus Helps You Find Work and Keep More of What You Earn
Jobs-Plus offers job help, financial counseling, benefits support and community-based services to residents of participating NYCHA developments.
Who
NYCHA residents old enough to work who live in one of the 44 developments currently served across 13 Jobs-Plus sites.
Where: 44 NYCHA developments across 13 sites
What to do
Start here: Use the Jobs NYC page to check whether your development is served and enroll through the appropriate Jobs-Plus site.
Eligibility: You must be a NYCHA resident in one of the currently served developments and be old enough to work.
What you get
Employment assistance, job-retention help, financial counseling and support designed to help NYCHA residents increase earnings.
Benefit: Job-placement and retention services plus financial counseling and rent-related work incentives available through the program.
Possible value: Varies by employment outcome and household rent/benefit circumstances.
Good to know
Important: Jobs-Plus is not available at every NYCHA development and does not guarantee a job or a fixed cash benefit.
Availability: Active
Why people miss it: NYCHA residents may know Workforce1 but not that some developments have their own place-based employment and financial-counseling program.
Sources reviewed: Aug 10, 2026