I would avoid accepting a FHEPS tenant.

I rented one of my apartments to a FHEPS tenant. From day one they were nothing but a headache. Also FHEPS doesn’t pay the rent on time. I got different checks throughout the month. From my experience a FHEPS tenant may be a class of person that won’t be a good tenant. Evicting them would have been a nightmare so I paid the tenant $1000 to leave the apartment and they accepted. This is what it has come to in being a landlord in New York City.