File #: T2025-3412    Version: * Name: How affordable housing units which subsequently became vacant are rented through the housing portal.
Type: Introduction Status: Introduced
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 4/24/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to how affordable housing units which subsequently became vacant are rented through the housing portal
Sponsors: Pierina Ana Sanchez, Farah N. Louis, Oswald Feliz, Crystal Hudson, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Amanda Farías, Mercedes Narcisse, Sandy Nurse, Shekar Krishnan, Tiffany Cabán, Erik D. Bottcher, Lynn C. Schulman
Council Member Sponsors: 12
Summary: This bill would require that the department of housing preservation and development post on the housing portal any previously occupied affordable housing unit available for rent if such unit is required to be rented through the housing portal. It would also require that only users who apply for occupancy of any such unit after the unit has been posted on the housing portal be considered for occupancy of that unit.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No., 2. Int. No.

Int. No.

 

By Council Members Sanchez, Louis, Feliz, Hudson, Gutiérrez, Farías, Narcisse, Nurse, Krishnan, Cabán, Bottcher and Schulman

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to how affordable housing units which subsequently became vacant are rented through the housing portal

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph 2 of subdivision a of section 26-1802 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 81 for the year 2020, is amended to read as follows:

                     (i) Indicate in such website whether such user is interested in being considered for an affordable unit that subsequently becomes vacant, provided that [consideration of users for such units may be carried out in a manner determined by the department, users shall only be considered for such units that] users shall receive notifications pursuant to subparagraph (g) of this paragraph when such units satisfy their indicated preferences and such website may require users at regular intervals to review and update their relevant profile information.

§ 2. Section 26-1802 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision d-1 between subdivisions d and e to read as follows:

d-1. The department shall list on the housing portal the limited unit information and offered unit information for each affordable unit which has subsequently become vacant and which the department requires to be offered exclusively through the housing portal. The department shall allow users to apply for occupancy of each such unit. Only users who have applied for occupancy of such a unit after the unit was listed on the housing portal shall be considered for occupancy of that unit.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

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LS #13982

04/14/2025