Apartments that accept Section 8 in Peekskill, NY

Westchester is in HUD’s New York Metro FMR Area, which is not on HUD’s list of areas that must use ZIP-code figures (Notice PIH 2023-32). Each voucher program sets its own payment standard, normally between 90% and 110% of HUD’s Fair Market Rent for the area.

Neither the City of Peekskill nor CVR posts a dated dollar schedule. The table shows HUD’s FY2027 Westchester figures, in effect since October 1, 2026, and the 90% to 110% band around them. The city’s 2024-2028 plan says it “increased our payment standards each year”; ask your caseworker for the number on your voucher.

The search table higher on this page shows HUD’s Small Area figure for ZIP 10566 ($3,050 for a two-bedroom). HUD publishes it, but Westchester programs are not required to use it, and neither Peekskill office says it does.

The standard is not a rent cap. A unit above it can be approved if your share at move-in stays within 40% of adjusted monthly income, and the rent must also pass a reasonableness check against similar local units.

Gross rent is the rent plus a utility allowance for what you pay yourself. The City of Peekskill does not post its allowance schedule. The Westchester County schedule effective January 1, 2026, posted by the Town of Yorktown’s Section 8 office, gives these two-bedroom amounts for a low-rise building. Use them as a guide and ask Peekskill for its own figures.

Here the tenant pays $989 a month, $29 more than the base 30% share, because gross rent is above the figure. If the same rent included heat and hot water, the allowance would fall to $154 (other electric plus electric cooking) and the share would stay at $960. In Peekskill, whether heat is included can matter as much as the rent.

Peekskill is one ZIP code, 10566, so the HUD figure is the same across the city. The pages below have listings by neighborhood and the county-wide rules.

Two laws apply. New York’s Human Rights Law bars refusing to rent because of “lawful source of income” (Executive Law § 296(5)(a)(1), since April 2019), and the state says housing assistance “includes Section 8 or any other type of vouchers.” The state law exempts an owner-occupied building with two units or fewer and rooms rented by the occupant (§ 296). Westchester County’s Fair Housing Law, adopted in 2013, also lists “Source of Income (including Housing Choice Vouchers, also known as Section 8)” (county); the county says it exempts co-ops, condos and buildings with six or fewer units (county).

On March 5, 2026 a state appeals court in the Third Department held the state law’s Section 8 protection unconstitutional (People v Commons West), and the State has appealed. Peekskill is in the Second Department, which has not ruled, and the county law was not part of that case. Report a refusal to the state’s Section 8 Early Intervention Unit, (844) 697-3471 (DHR), or the Westchester County Human Rights Commission, (914) 995-9500. General information, not legal advice.

A Peekskill tenant’s voucher may come from the city program, from CVR’s state program or from another agency through portability, and each agency inspects and pays separately. Units are inspected before the lease starts under HUD’s NSPIRE standard, which the city wrote into its administrative plan. Rent above HUD’s $2,971 two-bedroom figure is not barred, but it raises the tenant’s share and can fail the 40% test at move-in. List a rental on VoucherMatch to reach Peekskill voucher holders.