CurRentNYC and the Current NYC Landlord Portal: What Caseworkers and Landlords Need to Know

CurRentNYC is a Department of Social Services packet system. Public reporting describes its rollout in 2025; providers should confirm their current submission workflow with DSS. In June 2025 a DSS spokesperson told City Limits that "90 percent of regular CityFHEPs packages are now being submitted through the new data system" (City Limits, June 10, 2025). The landlord-facing side is the Current NYC Landlord Portal at current.nyc.gov, where landlords and their designees manage their records and payments.

If you are a housing specialist, the short version: the packet still has the same forms, preclearance still happens on the Offers site, and client renewals still run through ACCESS HRA. CurRentNYC changes where the packet lives and how landlords see payments. Use the current DSS checklist for what belongs in the packet; a portal account is not a substitute for required documents.

Last checked: September 2026. DSS has published little public documentation for CurRentNYC. Everything below is sourced to DSS forms, DSS testimony, the City Council, or press reports quoting DSS. We say so where a detail is unconfirmed.

What DSS has said about it

The following dated sources describe the rollout and the landlord-facing forms.

• January 27, 2025. In Council testimony on CityFHEPS, Commissioner Molly Wasow Park said DSS was working "to reduce client and landlord administrative burden by improving systems like Access HRA and CurRentNYC," and was "thinking critically about what documentation we really need" (testimony PDF).
• June 10, 2025. DSS spokesperson Neha Sharma told City Limits that 90 percent of regular CityFHEPS packages were going through the new system, which the article spells "CurrRent." The same statement put average processing at "around three weeks" (City Limits).
• April 1, 2026 edition of the Landlord Package. The current DSS-8f (E) 04/01/2026 includes a page for Current NYC Landlord Portal information, and Section II is now titled "Rental Unit, Utilities, Property Owner, Broker, and Current NYC Information."

We could not find a public provider manual, training deck or help center for CurRentNYC.

The landlord side: Current NYC

Page 7 of the DSS-8f describes the portal this way: landlords, "or their designees, will be able to create a Current NYC account to see and update their information in DSS' records, change payment preferences, enroll in Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) to receive rent payments electronically, and view payment history."

Three details on that page trip people up:

• Filling out page 7 does not sign the landlord up. The form says completing it "does not enroll landlords in the Current NYC Landlord Portal and does not enroll landlords in direct deposit." It only tells DSS who should get access.
• The landlord can name someone else. The designee can be the property owner, the property manager, or another person. An owner designating themselves skips the name, phone and email fields.
• EFT does not cover the first checks. Section III says "initial payments are issued via check, even if you select to be paid via EFT." The exception is certain DHS cases processed through HPD's Homeless Placement Services. So the landlord still picks up checks at the key exchange. EFT applies to the ongoing monthly payments.

For landlords, the practical gain is payment visibility in one place. The City Council's June 2025 report described the older owner portal as unable to save information, with "no option to complete or sign HRA documents electronically" (report). Payment questions still go to the HRA Rental Assistance Call Center at 718-557-1399 (DSS-8j).

Which system does what

Caseworkers juggle several DSS systems, and CurRentNYC did not retire the others. This table is based on DSS forms and the Council report.

The Council report is blunt about the older pieces: caseworkers "need to manually index uploaded documents" in ACCESS HRA, and it "does not display detailed application status information." It recommended a centralized owner portal where recurring documents, such as the deed and W-9, are stored once. Whether Current NYC now does that for packet documents, DSS hasn't said publicly.

What to confirm before you rely on it

Because the public documentation is so limited, ask DSS before you build a workflow around any of these:

• Whether landlords can upload packet documents themselves in Current NYC, or whether the provider still collects and submits everything. DSS-8j still tells landlords and brokers they are responsible for providing documents "and also ensure it is submitted," which today usually means handing them to you.
• Whether a landlord's stored deed, W-9 and HPD registration carry over to the next packet for a different unit in the same building. The Council report complained that owners had to redo preclearance for every unit even when the building information had not changed.
• Who at your agency has CurRentNYC access and whether a colleague can pick up a packet when the assigned specialist is out.
• Whether a returned packet shows the reason in the system, or still arrives by email.

For provider questions about preclearance, walkthroughs and rental assistance programs, DSS lists the DHS Rehousing Customer Service Call Center at 929-470-3052 (DSS-10k).

Frequently asked questions

Is "CurrRent" the same as "Current NYC"?

They appear to be two faces of the same effort. DSS testimony calls the system "CurRentNYC," City Limits spelled it "CurrRent," and the landlord portal is branded "Current NYC." We have not seen DSS describe exactly where the provider system ends and the landlord portal begins.

Does a landlord need a Current NYC account to get paid?

Not according to the DSS-8f. It lets a landlord choose EFT or paper checks on the form itself, and the initial payment is a check either way. The account is for managing records and seeing payment history.

Does CurRentNYC change the forms in the packet?

Not that DSS has announced. The same DSS-8f or DSS-8g, lease, deed, W-9, DSS-8q and security voucher are required. See our CityFHEPS landlord packet checklist for the full list.

Where does a landlord report a change of owner, payee or address?

On the DSS-85 series forms: Change in Property Ownership (DSS-85), Change of Payee (DSS-85a), Change of Payment Address (DSS-85b) and Change in Tenancy (DSS-85c), all on the CityFHEPS documents page. The DSS-8f also says landlords will be able to update their information in DSS records through Current NYC.

One more system worth having

DSS systems track the packet once it exists. They don't track the weeks before that: which landlords you called, which client documents are expiring, which units a client already turned down. VoucherMatch for organizations keeps each client's documents and housing search in one record and lets you apply to voucher-friendly listings for them. For the landlord conversation itself, point owners to how CityFHEPS works for landlords.

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