333 voucher holders searching, 1 active listing — Brooklyn's steepest demand gap

Crown Heights has one of the most stretched supply-demand ratios on VoucherMatch. 333 tenants have either applied to a Crown Heights listing in the last six months or named the neighborhood as a preferred location — against just 1 active listing on the platform. That is a 333:1 ratio. The implication for a landlord adding inventory here is direct: an accurately priced, voucher-friendly listing is unlikely to sit on the market.

Demand is overwhelmingly CityFHEPS — 75% of interested tenants hold a CityFHEPS voucher, with FHEPS (13.8%) and HASA (8.6%) rounding out the next tier. Section 8 holders make up under 1% of local search activity. A landlord who accepts only Section 8 in Crown Heights will see a narrower applicant pool than the headline number suggests; one who accepts CityFHEPS will see effectively the full 333.

Bedroom-size demand in our window is entirely 1BR (333 tenants), which lines up with the neighborhood's pre-war and brownstone housing stock. The applicable 1BR payment standard for CityFHEPS, FHEPS, and HASA is $2,762; Section 8 (HCV) uses the citywide HUD FMR, which rose from $2,511 (FY2025) to $2,655 (FY2026), a 5.7% bump. Both programs pay competitively against asking rents observed elsewhere in the borough.