Bill Text: NY S02918 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the New York city housing authority, in reviewing applicants, to grant domestic violence victims the same preference as granted to any other class of applicants.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S02918 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02918-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2918

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 25, 2023
                                       ___________

        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  to amend the public housing law, in relation to preferences and
          priorities for prospective public housing and section 8 tenants in the
          city of New York

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (e)  of  subdivision 3 of section 402-b of the
     2  public housing law, as added by chapter  3  of  the  laws  of  2010,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (e)  All  prospective  public  housing  and Section 8 tenants shall be
     5  selected from a waiting list which shall be maintained by the  New  York
     6  city housing authority in compliance with the federal public housing and
     7  Section  8  laws  and all applicable rules and regulations. The New York
     8  city housing authority and each respective project  owner  shall  screen
     9  tenants  and  jointly  have  final approval over tenant selection all in
    10  accordance with aforementioned laws, rules and regulations. All prospec-
    11  tive public housing tenants shall be taken from the waiting list in  the
    12  order  in  which  they  applied  for  the size appropriate unit, subject
    13  however to preferences and priorities provided for in [the public  hous-
    14  ing  law]  this  chapter  and  all  applicable  rules  and  regulations;
    15  provided, however that, any priority or preference offered to applicants
    16  based on their residence in a city owned, operated or contracted  domes-
    17  tic  violence  shelter or in a domestic violence shelter licensed by the
    18  office of children and family services shall be offered at  the  highest
    19  priority level offered to any other class of applicants.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06590-01-3