File #: Int 0893-2023    Version: Name: Expanding eligibility for rental assistance to any applicant at risk of eviction or experiencing homelessness.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on General Welfare
On agenda: 1/19/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to expanding eligibility for rental assistance to any applicant at risk of eviction or experiencing homelessness
Sponsors: Pierina Ana Sanchez, Diana I. Ayala, Tiffany Cabán, Shahana K. Hanif, Farah N. Louis, Althea V. Stevens, Crystal Hudson, Lincoln Restler, Shaun Abreu, Justin L. Brannan, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Gale A. Brewer, Sandra Ung, Chi A. Ossé, Mercedes Narcisse, Alexa Avilés, Nantasha M. Williams, Christopher Marte, Kristin Richardson Jordan, Amanda Farías, Julie Won, Lynn C. Schulman, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Rita C. Joseph, Sandy Nurse, James F. Gennaro, Shekar Krishnan, Carlina Rivera , Charles Barron, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Darlene Mealy, Oswald Feliz, Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Public Advocate Jumaane Williams
Council Member Sponsors: 34
Summary: This bill would expand eligibility for a rental assistance voucher to any applicant who is a household at risk of eviction or experiencing homelessness.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 893-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 893, 3. Int. No. 893, 4. Committee Report 1/18/23, 5. Hearing Testimony 1/18/23, 6. Hearing Transcript 1/18/23, 7. January 19, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 8. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 1-19-23, 9. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - January 19, 2023, 10. Proposed Int. No. 893-A - 5/23/23, 11. Committee Report 5/24/23, 12. Fiscal Impact Statement
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
5/25/2023APierina Ana Sanchez City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
5/24/2023*Pierina Ana Sanchez Committee on General Welfare Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/24/2023*Pierina Ana Sanchez Committee on General Welfare Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/24/2023*Pierina Ana Sanchez Committee on General Welfare Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/24/2023APierina Ana Sanchez Committee on General Welfare Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
1/19/2023*Pierina Ana Sanchez City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/19/2023*Pierina Ana Sanchez City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/18/2023*Pierina Ana Sanchez Committee on General Welfare Hearing on P-C Item by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/18/2023*Pierina Ana Sanchez Committee on General Welfare P-C Item Laid Over by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 893-A

 

By Council Members Sanchez, Ayala, Cabán, Hanif, Louis, Stevens, Hudson, Restler, Abreu, Brannan, De La Rosa, Brewer, Ung, Ossé, Narcisse, Avilés, Williams, Marte, Richardson Jordan, Farías, Won, Schulman, Gutiérrez, Joseph, Nurse, Gennaro, Krishnan, Rivera, Barron, Brooks-Powers, Mealy, Feliz, Salamanca and the Public Advocate (Mr. Williams)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to expanding eligibility for rental assistance to any applicant at risk of eviction or experiencing homelessness

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision b of section 21-145 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by a local law for the year 2023 amending the administrative code of the city of New York, relating to prohibiting the department of social services from requiring an applicant for a rental assistance voucher to have resided or reside in a shelter of any type, as proposed in introduction number 878-A, is amended by adding a new paragraph 3 to read as follows:

3. The department shall deem eligible for a rental assistance voucher any applicant who is a household at risk of eviction or experiencing homelessness.

§ 2. This local law takes effect on the same date as a local law for the year 2023 amending the administrative code of the city of New York, relating to prohibiting the department of social services from requiring an applicant for a rental assistance voucher to have resided or reside in a shelter of any type, as proposed in introduction number 878-A, takes effect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ACK/DR

LS# 8952

5/17/23, 7:05 p.m.