The New York City Council - File #: T2026-0226

File #:

T2026-0226 Version: *

Name:

Annual reporting on participation by city households in the housing choice voucher homeownership program.

Type:

Introduction

Status:

Introduced

Committee:

City Council

On agenda:

9/24/2026

Enactment date:

Law number:

Title:

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to annual reporting on participation by city households in the housing choice voucher homeownership program

Sponsors:

Ty Hankerson

Council Member Sponsors:

Summary:

This bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to submit to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council, and post online, an annual report detailing participation by New York City households in the HPD-administered Housing Choice Voucher Homeownership Program (HCVHP). It would require HPD to report for the previous calendar year on the number of households that participated in the HPD-administered Housing Choice Voucher Program, the number of households eligible for HCVHP, the number of households that participated in HCVHP, and the number of successful closings on homes through HCVHP. It would require this information to be reported by borough, certain income bands, household structure, and race. It would also direct HPD to seek and report corresponding information from New York State Homes and Community Renewal.

Indexes:

Report Required

Attachments:

1. Summary of Int. No., 2. Int. No.

Date	Ver.	Prime Sponsor	Action By	Action	Result	Action Details	Meeting Details	Multimedia
9/24/2026	*	Ty Hankerson	City Council	Introduced by Council		Action details	Meeting details	Not available

Int. No.

By Council Member Hankerson

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to annual reporting on participation by city households in the housing choice voucher homeownership program

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Title 26 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter 40 to read as follows:

CHAPTER 40

HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER HOMEOWNERSHIP PROGRAM REPORTING

§ 26-4001 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:

Area median income. The term “area median income” means the income limits as defined annually by the United States department of housing and urban development for the New York, NY HUD Metro FMR Area (HMFA), as established in section 3 of the housing act of 1937, as amended.

Commissioner. The term “commissioner” means the commissioner of housing preservation and development.

Department. The term “department” means the department of housing preservation and development.

Extremely low income household. The term “extremely low income household” means a household that has an income of not more than 30 percent of the area median income, adjusted for the size of the household.

Housing choice voucher homeownership program. The term “housing choice voucher homeownership program” means the housing choice voucher homeownership program administered pursuant to subsection (y) of section 1437f of title 42 of the United States code and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Housing choice voucher program. The term “housing choice voucher program” means the tenant-based voucher program administered pursuant to subsection (o) of section 1437f of title 42 of the United States code and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Low income household. The term “low income household” means a household that has an income of more than 50 percent of the area median income but no more than 80 percent of the area median income, adjusted for the size of the household.

Very low income household. The term “very low income household” means a household that has an income of more than 30 percent of the area median income but not more than 50 percent of the area median income, adjusted for the size of the household.

§ 26-4002 Reporting on housing choice voucher homeownership program. a. 1. No later than 1 year after the effective date of the local law that added this section, and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council and make publicly available on the department’s website a report regarding the department’s administration of the housing choice voucher homeownership program.

2. Such report shall include a table in which each separate row references a borough of the city. Each such row shall include the following information concerning the department’s administration of the housing choice voucher homeownership program in the immediately preceding calendar year, set forth in separate columns:

(a) The number of households that participated in the housing choice voucher program through the department;

(b) The number of households that were eligible for participation in the housing choice voucher homeownership program administered by the department;