Int. No. 110-A

By Council Members Avilés, Louis, Cabán, Restler, Won, Hanif, Ossé, Ayala, Nurse, De La Rosa, Farías, Hudson, Krishnan, Gutiérrez, Narcisse, Salaam, Rivera, Banks, Mealy and Joseph

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a report on the New York city housing authority’s permanent affordability commitment together program

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Subchapter 5 of chapter 1 of title 3 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 3-153 to read as follows:

§ 3-153 Annual report on the New York city housing authority’s permanent affordability commitment together program. No later than November 1, 2024, and annually on November 1 thereafter, the mayor, or an agency designated by the mayor, shall make publicly available online and submit to the speaker of the council a report relating to the New York city housing authority’s implementation of the permanent affordability commitment together program pursuant to which a property receiving assistance under section 9 of the United States housing act of 1937 converts to a property receiving assistance under section 8 of such act. In developing this report, the mayor, or such designated agency, shall seek cooperation and assistance from the New York city housing authority. Such report shall not include the personally identifiable information of any public housing resident. Such report shall include, at a minimum, the following information for each public housing development selected for conversion:

a. The date such development was selected for inclusion in such program;

b. The date such development was converted, in accordance with such program;

c. The name of the development partner and property manager selected to manage such development upon conversion;

d. The name of any subcontractors known by the New York city housing authority to have been hired by the development partner or property manager for such development;

e. The outreach to residents of the New York city housing authority, including any resident engagement, conducted by such authority prior to and throughout the conversion of such development, including the languages in which any materials provided to residents as part of such outreach were made available;

f. Data regarding the development partner’s progress towards meeting requirements under section 3 of the housing and urban development act of 1968;

g. The oversight role performed by the New York city housing authority of the development partner or property manager identified in subdivision c of this section;

h. Information regarding resident rights upon conversion;

i. The total repair costs for each conversion, and a breakdown of the cost and time it took to complete the repairs and upgrades following conversion, including but not limited to work to address environmental hazards, if any;

j. The average number of days it took a development partner to resolve work orders, by type of work order, in such development;

k. The number of times a development partner or property manager conducted outreach to a resident prior to sending such resident an eviction notice, the number of eviction proceedings initiated, and the number of evictions executed following conversion;

l. The amount and type of fees paid by tenants in addition to amounts paid towards rent following conversion;

m. Information regarding additional fees received by the New York city housing authority, if any, in connection with conversion; and

n. Notwithstanding the requirement to provide development-specific information specified in subdivisions a through m of this section, information regarding the financing of the permanent affordability commitment together program, such as an aggregate amount of financing received for developments converted through such program and an aggregate amount of support received from the city for developments converted through such program.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

Session 13

CoJM

LS #7402

5/8/2024 8:47pm

Session 12

AS

LS #7402

9/7/2022