File #: Int 1071-2024    Version: Name: Reporting on domestic violence emergency and tier II shelters.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on General Welfare
On agenda: 10/10/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on domestic violence emergency and tier II shelters
Sponsors: Diana I. Ayala, Carlina Rivera , Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Mercedes Narcisse, Amanda Farías, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Summary: This bill would amend the existing reporting requirements regarding multi-agency emergency housing assistance to include reporting on referrals to HRA domestic violence shelters disaggregated by household type and source of referral. This bill would also require reporting on transfers between city-administered facility systems and exits from HRA-administered domestic violence shelters including domestic violence emergency shelters and domestic violence tier II shelters.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1071-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1071, 3. Int. No. 1071, 4. Committee Report 10/9/24, 5. Hearing Testimony 10/9/24, 6. Hearing Transcript 10/9/24, 7. October 10, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 8. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-10-24, 9. Proposed Int. No. 1071-A - 11/14/24
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Proposed Int. No. 1071-A

 

By Council Members Ayala, Rivera, Brooks-Powers, Narcisse, Farías and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on domestic violence emergency and tier II shelters

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision c of section 3-119.7 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 79 for the year 2022 and such section as renumbered by local law number 103 for the year 2022, is amended to read as follows:

c. Application and entrance data. Commencing on November 1, 2011, and no later than the first day of each month thereafter, the mayor's office of operations shall for each month, calendar year, and fiscal year post on the same location on its website as the data posted pursuant to subdivision b of this section, the following data for those seeking admission and entrance to DHS-administered shelter facilities, provided that any information listed in this subdivision that was not required to be included in reports commencing on November 1, 2011, shall be included in reports commencing on July 1, 2023:

1. the total number of:

(a) applications;

(b) unduplicated applicants;

(c) applicants found eligible for shelter;

(d) entrants to DHS-administered facilities; and

(e) unduplicated entrants to DHS-administered facilities. The data required by subparagraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) of this paragraph shall be disaggregated by families with children, adult families, total families, single men, single women, anyone of another gender, and total single adults;

2. the number of families with children found eligible for city-administered facilities;

3. the percentage of eligible families with children who submitted one application;

4. the percentage of eligible families with children who submitted two applications;

5. the percentage of eligible families with children who submitted three applications;

6. the percentage of eligible families with children who submitted four applications;

7. the percentage of eligible families with children who submitted five applications;

8. the percentage of eligible families with children who submitted six applications or more;

9. the number of adult families found eligible for city-administered facilities;

10. the percentage of eligible adult families who submitted one application;

11. the percentage of eligible adult families who submitted two applications;

12. the percentage of eligible adult families who submitted three applications;

13. the percentage of eligible adult families who submitted four applications;

14. the percentage of eligible adult families who submitted five applications; [and]

15. the percentage of eligible adult families who submitted six applications or more; and

16. commencing with the report due April 1, 2025, the number of referrals to HRA domestic violence shelters, including domestic violence tier II or emergency shelters, disaggregated by (i) household type, including, but not limited to, families with children, adult families, and single adults and (ii) source of referral.

§ 2. Section 3-119.7 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision g-1 to read as follows:

g-1.  Reporting on transfers between city-administered facility systems. Commencing on April 1, 2025, and no later than the first day of each month thereafter, for each month, calendar year, and fiscal year, the mayor's office of operations shall report to the speaker of the council and post on the mayor's office of operations website, disaggregated information, if known, regarding the number of families with children, adult families, single adults, and runaway and homeless youth who have transferred between the following city-administered facility systems: DHS-administered facilities, DYCD-administered facilities, HPD-administered facilities, HRA-administered domestic violence emergency shelters, HRA-administered domestic violence tier II shelters, and other HRA-administered facilities. Such reporting shall be further disaggregated by the city-administered system from which and to which such persons transferred.

§ 3. Subdivision g of section 3-119.7 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 79 for the year 2022 and such section as renumbered by local law number 103 for the year 2022, is amended to read as follows:

g. Reporting on exits from city-administered facilities. Commencing on July 1, 2023, and no later than the first day of each month thereafter, the mayor's office of operations, for each month, calendar year and fiscal year, shall report to the speaker of the council and post on the mayor's office of operations website, disaggregated information, if known, regarding:

1. the number of families with children, adult families, single adults who have not returned within two monthly reporting cycles, and runaway and homeless youth from city-administered residential facilities that exited DHS-administered facilities, DYCD-administered residential facilities, HPD-administered facilities, and HRA-administered facilities and entered into the following types of housing:

[1.](a) Supportive housing;

[2.](b) City-financed homeless set-aside units, disaggregated by, units financed jointly by HPD and HDC under Housing New York, HDC set-aside units financed under Housing New York, and HPD set-aside units financed under Housing New York;

[3.](c) Section 8 voucher housing, disaggregated by NYCHA, HPD and New York state homes and community renewal, and further disaggregated by project-based or tenant-based vouchers;

[4.](d) Other affordable housing, disaggregated by 421-a affordable housing, Housing New York, mandatory inclusionary housing and other housing;

[5.](e) A private rental market apartment with a rental subsidy, disaggregated by the type of such subsidy;

[6.](f) Private housing that is not an entire apartment with a rental subsidy, disaggregated by a private room and an unsubsidized single-room occupancy that is not supportive housing;

[7.](g) A private rental market apartment with no rental subsidy, including those moving out of state;

[8.](h) Transitional housing operated by or under contract or similar agreement with DHS, DYCD, HPD, United States department of housing and urban development or HRA;

[9.](i) Discharges to settings with higher levels of medical care, disaggregated by inpatient hospitalization, medical rehabilitation centers, medical respite care and long-term care facilities;

[10.](j) Residential drug treatment and detoxification;

[11.](k) Housing of friends or family;

[12.](l) Unknown or unable to validate;

[13.](m) Rapid re-housing funded by the United States department of housing and urban development; and

[14.](n) Moved back to vacated building[;].

2. The information reported pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subdivision regarding exits from HRA-administered facilities shall be disaggregated by exits from HRA-administered domestic violence shelters and further disaggregated by exits from HRA-administered domestic violence emergency shelters and exits from HRA-administered domestic violence tier II shelters.

§ 4. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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11/13/2024 2:12 PM