File #: Int 1213-2025    Version: * Name: Source of income discrimination by property owners as a form of harassment for the purposes of a certification of no harassment.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 3/12/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to source of income discrimination by property owners as a form of harassment for the purposes of a certification of no harassment
Sponsors: Shekar Krishnan, Sandy Nurse, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Tiffany Cabán
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Summary: This bill would amend the definitions of harassment in the Housing Maintenance Code to include source of income discrimination as a form of harassment, such that the Department of Housing Preservation and Development would not be permitted to issue a Certification of No Harassment to a property owner, unless the department concludes there has been no source of income discrimination by such property owner in the relevant statutory period.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1213, 2. Int. No. 1213, 3. March 12, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1213

 

By Council Members Krishnan, Nurse, Sanchez, Gutiérrez and Cabán

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to source of income discrimination by property owners as a form of harassment for the purposes of a certification of no harassment

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Paragraph 4 of subdivision a of section 27-2093 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

(4) any other conduct which prevents or is intended to prevent any person from the lawful occupancy of such dwelling unit or causes or is intended to cause such person lawfully entitled to occupancy of such dwelling unit to vacate such unit or to surrender or waive any rights in relation to such occupancy, including but not limited to: removing the possessions of any occupant from the dwelling unit; removing the door at the entrance to the dwelling unit; removing, plugging or otherwise rendering the lock on such entrance door inoperable; [or] changing the lock on such entrance door without supplying the occupant with a key; or discriminating against a lawful occupant or prospective tenant based on such occupant’s or prospective tenant’s lawful source of income.

§ 2. The definition of “harassment” set forth in subdivision a of section 27-2093.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 1 for the year 2018, is amended to read as follows:

Harassment. The term "harassment" has the meaning set forth in subdivision 48 of section 27-2004, and includes discrimination by an owner of a pilot program building against a lawful occupant or prospective tenant based on such occupant’s or prospective tenant’s lawful source of income.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 60 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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