File #: Int 0567-2022    Version: * Name: Prohibiting homeless families with children from being housed in private buildings with multiple class C housing maintenance code violations.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on General Welfare
On agenda: 7/14/2022
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting homeless families with children from being housed in private buildings with multiple class C housing maintenance code violations
Sponsors: Oswald Feliz, Gale A. Brewer, Kalman Yeger , Alexa Avilés, Sandy Nurse
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Summary: This bill would prohibit homeless families with children from being temporarily housed in private buildings with more than five class C housing maintenance code violations. Current homeless families with children in such buildings would be permitted to remain, but no additional families with children would be housed in such buildings until corrections have been certified by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 567, 2. Int. No. 567, 3. July 14, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 7-14-22, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - July 14, 2022, 6. Committee Report 9/27/23, 7. Hearing Testimony 9/27/23, 8. Hearing Transcript 9/27/23

Int. No. 567

 

By Council Members Feliz, Brewer, Yeger, Avilés and Nurse

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting homeless families with children from being housed in private buildings with multiple class C housing maintenance code violations

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 3 of title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 21-328 to read as follows:

§ 21-328 Housing families in private buildings with multiple class C violations prohibited. The department shall not temporarily house any homeless families with children in private buildings with more than five class C violations issued by the department of housing preservation and development until such violations have been corrected as certified by the department of housing preservation and development.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately, except that it shall not apply to homeless families with children housed in private buildings with more than five class C violations on the effective date of this local law.

 

 

 

 

 

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