File #: Int 0725-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring the department for the aging to report on senior and accessible dwelling units.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Aging
On agenda: 3/19/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department for the aging to report on senior and accessible dwelling units
Sponsors: Lynn C. Schulman, Crystal Hudson, James F. Gennaro, Shahana K. Hanif, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Farah N. Louis, Chi A. Ossé, Nantasha M. Williams, Shekar Krishnan, Rita C. Joseph, Althea V. Stevens, Julie Won, Justin L. Brannan, Pierina Ana Sanchez
Council Member Sponsors: 14
Summary: This bill would require New York City Aging (“NYCA,” formerly the Department for the Aging), in collaboration with Housing Preservation & Development (HPD), to submit an annual report on how many seniors live in apartment buildings in each Council district and how many of those apartments are retrofitted for people with disabilities, including mobility issues.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 725, 2. Int. No. 725, 3. March 19, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-19-24, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 19, 2024

Int. No. 725

 

By Council Members Schulman, Hudson, Gennaro, Hanif, Gutiérrez, Louis, Ossé, Williams, Krishnan, Joseph, Stevens, Won, Brannan and Sanchez

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department for the aging to report on senior and accessible dwelling units

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 2 of title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 21-210 to read as follows:

§ 21-210 Annual report on seniors and accessible housing. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

The term “multiple dwelling” has the same meaning as set forth in paragraph 7 of subdivision a of section 27-2004.

The term “senior” has the same meaning as set forth in subdivision a of section 21-208.

b. Annual report. No later than December 31, 2023 and annually thereafter, the department, in collaboration with the department for housing preservation and development, shall submit to the speaker of the council and post conspicuously to its website a report regarding senior and accessible housing. Such report shall include, but need not be limited to, the following information for the prior year in a non-proprietary format that permits automated processing:

1. The number of seniors living in multiple dwelling units in New York city, disaggregated by zip code and by council district; and

2. The number of multiple dwelling units in New York city which abide by universal design principles or which are otherwise designed or retrofitted to be accessible for individuals with disabilities or mobility issues, disaggregated by zip code and by council district.

c. Personally identifiable information. No report required by subdivision b of this section shall contain personally identifiable information.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

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