File #: Int 0375-2022    Version: * Name: Reporting on affordable housing set-asides for tenants with disabilities.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 5/19/2022
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on affordable housing set-asides for tenants with disabilities
Sponsors: Diana I. Ayala, Sandy Nurse, Shekar Krishnan, Shaun Abreu, Kristin Richardson Jordan
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Summary: This bill would require Housing Preservation and Development to report annually on how many of their affordable housing units set aside for persons with disabilities are actually rented to persons with disabilities.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 375, 2. Int. No. 375, 3. May 19, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-19-22, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - May 19, 2022

Int. No. 375

 

By Council Members Ayala, Nurse, Krishnan, Abreu and Richardson Jordan

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on affordable housing set-asides for tenants with disabilities

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 26-1402 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law 217 for the year 2019, is amended by adding a subdivision c to read as follows:

c. In each report required by subdivision a of this section, the department shall disclose, disaggregated by development, the following information:

1. The total amount of units in the development;

2. How many applications were received for the development by persons with a mobility, vision, or hearing disability;

3. How many units were rented to persons with a mobility disability that were designated as accessible for a person with that disability?

4. How many units were rented to persons with a vision or hearing disability that were designated as accessible for a person with that disability; and

5. The size of the waiting list of applicants with disabilities for the development.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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