Int. No. 375-A
By Council Members Ayala, Nurse, Krishnan, Abreu, Richardson Jordan, Sanchez, Hanif, Cabán, Holden, Brannan, Narcisse, Dinowitz, Rivera and Gennaro
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on the results of lotteries administered by the department of housing preservation and development for affordable housing units for tenants with disabilities
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision b and subdivision f of section 26-2602 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 217 for the year 2019, are amended to read as follows:
b. The data in such report shall be presented at the citywide, borough and community district levels, with aggregated totals for each of the paragraphs in subdivision d, except that the data responsive to the inquiry specified in paragraph 4 of subdivision d shall be aggregated only at the borough level, and the data responsive to the inquiry specified in subdivision d-1 shall be presented as otherwise provided in subdivision d-1. For each required geographic level, data responsive to the inquiries specified in subdivision d shall be disaggregated by the following items:
f. If a category disaggregated in subdivisions b, c [or], d, or d-1 contains between 0 and 9 applicants, or allows another category to be narrowed to between 0 and 9 applicants, the number shall be replaced with a symbol.
§ 2. Section 26-2602 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision d-1 to read as follows:
d-1. In addition to the data provided pursuant to subdivisions b, c and d, the report required by this section shall also include the following data for applicants with a mobility, or vision or hearing, disability who applied through the housing lottery system for affordable housing:
1. Data responsive to the inquiry specified in paragraph 1 of subdivision d, disaggregated at the citywide and borough levels by disability status; and
2. The number of applicants with a mobility, or vision or hearing, disability who signed a lease for an affordable housing unit that is designated as accessible for a person with such disability, disaggregated only at the borough level.
§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately.
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