Bill Text: NY S01903 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of housing and community renewal, in consultation with the director of the budget and the commissioner of taxation and finance, to conduct a study to examine the efficacy of the creation of a statewide affordable housing agency whose sole mission is to directly build affordable housing utilizing state funds and employing residents of the state to accomplish such construction of affordable housing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S01903 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01903-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1903

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
          Community Development

        AN  ACT  directing the commissioner of housing and community renewal, in
          consultation with the director of the budget and the  commissioner  of
          taxation  and  finance,  to conduct a study to examine the efficacy of
          the creation of a statewide affordable housing agency

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

     1    Section  1.  The  commissioner  of  housing  and community renewal, in
     2  consultation with the director of the budget  and  the  commissioner  of
     3  taxation  and  finance, shall conduct a study to examine the efficacy of
     4  the creation of a statewide affordable housing agency whose sole mission
     5  is to directly  build  affordable  housing  utilizing  state  funds  and
     6  employing  residents  of  the  state  to accomplish such construction of
     7  affordable housing.
     8    § 2. The commissioner of housing and community renewal shall prepare a
     9  report which shall be submitted to the governor, the temporary president
    10  of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader  of  the
    11  senate  and  the  minority leader of the assembly, within one year after
    12  the effective date of this act, containing findings and  recommendations
    13  for potential legislative and regulatory actions to create such a state-
    14  wide affordable housing agency.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06092-01-3