File #: Int 0229-2022    Version: Name: Monthly rental assistance payments for households with rental assistance vouchers.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on General Welfare
On agenda: 4/28/2022
Enactment date: 7/13/2023 Law number: 2023/099
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to monthly rental assistance payments for households with rental assistance vouchers
Sponsors: Tiffany Cabán, Diana I. Ayala, Crystal Hudson, Gale A. Brewer, Althea V. Stevens, Nantasha M. Williams, Lincoln Restler, Shaun Abreu, Shekar Krishnan, Sandy Nurse, Julie Won, Kevin C. Riley, Alexa Avilés, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Chi A. Ossé, Shahana K. Hanif, Kristin Richardson Jordan, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Lynn C. Schulman, Amanda Farías, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Rita C. Joseph, Mercedes Narcisse, Keith Powers , Christopher Marte, Carlina Rivera , Charles Barron, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Darlene Mealy, Oswald Feliz, Justin L. Brannan, Eric Dinowitz, Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Public Advocate Jumaane Williams
Council Member Sponsors: 34
Summary: This bill would prohibit the department of social services from deducting a utility allowance from the maximum rental allowance of a rental assistance voucher. The bill would also require the department, in situations where the actual rent of a household receiving a rental assistance voucher is less than the maximum rental allowance for that household, to reduce the tenant’s contribution by the difference between the maximum rental allowance and the actual rent, up to the amount of the utility allowance. If such a reduction is greater than the household rent contribution, the department would be required to issue a check to the household in the amount of such excess, within the month in which such excess is accrued. Further, this bill provides that if a household receives a shelter allowance that is reduced by accepting an apartment that is less than the maximum rental allowance, the department shall issue a check to the household in the amount of such a reduction within the month in which such reduction is accrued.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 229-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 229, 3. Int. No. 229, 4. April 28, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-28-22, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 28, 2022, 7. Committee Report 9/13/22, 8. Hearing Testimony 9/13/22, 9. Hearing Transcript 9/13/22, 10. Proposed Int. No. 229-A - 5/23/23, 11. Committee Report 5/24/23, 12. Hearing Transcript 5/24/23, 13. May 25, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 14. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-25-23, 15. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - May 25, 2023, 16. Mayor's Veto Transmittal Cover Letter, 17. Veto Message - Int. No. 229-A, 18. Committee Report 7/13/23, 19. Hearing Testimony 7/13/23, 20. Hearing Transcript 7/13/23, 21. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 22. July 13, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 23. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 7-13-23, 24. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - July 13, 2023, 25. Int. No. 229-A (FINAL), 26. Fiscal Impact Statement, 27. Local Law 99, 28. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor
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7/13/2023ATiffany Cabán City Council Overridden by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
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6/23/2023ATiffany Cabán Mayor Vetoed by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
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5/24/2023*Tiffany Cabán Committee on General Welfare Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/24/2023*Tiffany Cabán Committee on General Welfare Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
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9/13/2022*Tiffany Cabán Committee on General Welfare Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
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4/28/2022*Tiffany Cabán City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
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Int. No. 229-A

 

By Council Members Cabán, Ayala, Hudson, Brewer, Stevens, Williams, Restler, Abreu, Krishnan, Nurse, Won, Riley, Avilés, De La Rosa, Ossé, Hanif, Richardson Jordan, Gutiérrez, Schulman, Farías, Sanchez, Joseph, Narcisse, Powers, Marte, Rivera, Barron, Brooks-Powers, Mealy, Feliz, Brannan, Dinowitz, Salamanca and the Public Advocate (Mr. Williams)

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to monthly rental assistance payments for households with rental assistance vouchers

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

            Section 1. Section 21-145 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by a local law for the year 2023, relating to income and work requirements for rental assistance, as proposed in introduction number 894-A, is amended by adding new subdivisions d, e, and f to read as follows:

d. Amount of monthly rental assistance. The department shall provide monthly rental assistance to an owner or a landlord on behalf of a household in receipt of a rental assistance voucher in the amount equal to the actual monthly rent of the leased apartment or single room occupancy, up to the maximum rental allowance, minus the household rent contribution. The department shall not deduct a utility allowance from such amount.

e. Utility allowance deduction. 1. The department shall provide that when a household rents an apartment or single room occupancy for less than the maximum rental allowance, the household rent contribution shall be reduced by the difference between the maximum rental allowance and the actual rent, up to the amount of the utility allowance.

2. If the amount by which the household rent contribution is reduced pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subdivision is greater than the household’s rent contribution, the department shall issue a check to the household in the amount of such excess within the month in which such excess is accrued.

3. If the household receives a shelter allowance that is reduced by the amount allowed by paragraph 1 of this subdivision, the department shall issue a check to the household in the amount of such reduction within the month in which such reduction is accrued.

f. Within 15 days of the effective date of the local law that added subdivision d, e, and f of this section, and continuing thereafter, the commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of housing preservation and development, shall conduct culturally appropriate outreach on this section to relevant agencies, stakeholders, landlords, and families and individuals experiencing homelessness in the designated citywide languages, as defined in section 23-1101.

§ 2. This local law takes effect on the same date as a local law for the year 2023 amending the administrative code of the city of New York, relating to prohibiting the department of social services from requiring an applicant for a rental assistance voucher to have resided or reside in a shelter of any type, as proposed in introduction number 878-A, takes effect.

 

 

 

 

 

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