Bill Text: NY A00794 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the New York city housing authority to establish and maintain a vacancy database.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to housing [A00794 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00794-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           794

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Housing

        AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in  relation  to  requiring  New
          York  city housing authority to maintain a database of vacant residen-
          tial housing units

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Section 402 of the public housing law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
     3    12. a. The New York city housing authority shall establish  and  main-
     4  tain  a public database of all residential dwelling units that have been
     5  vacant for at least one hundred eighty days.
     6    b. Such database shall contain:
     7    (i) the month and year when each unit was last vacated;
     8    (ii) the projected date for the completion of any necessary repairs in
     9  each such unit; and
    10    (iii) a projected date for when each such unit will be available.
    11    c. Such database  shall  be  publicly  available  on  the  authority's
    12  website and updated on a quarterly basis.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02570-01-5