File #: Int 0061-2026    Version: * Name: Creating a business directory for New York city housing authority tenant-owned businesses and establishing a marketing campaign to highlight the New York city housing authority tenant-owned business directory.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Small Business
On agenda: 1/29/2026
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to creating a business directory for New York city housing authority tenant-owned businesses and establishing a marketing campaign to highlight the New York city housing authority tenant-owned business directory
Sponsors: Chris Banks, Farah N. Louis, Tiffany L. Cabán, Christopher Marte, Virginia Maloney , Gale A. Brewer, Shahana K. Hanif, Harvey D. Epstein
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Small Business Services to create an online business directory for NYCHA tenant-owned businesses and a marketing campaign to highlight the directory.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 61, 2. Int. No. 61, 3. January 29, 2026 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 1-29-26

Int. No. 61

 

By Council Members Banks, Louis, Cabán, Marte, Maloney, Brewer, Hanif and Epstein

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to creating a business directory for New York city housing authority tenant-owned businesses and establishing a marketing campaign to highlight the New York city housing authority tenant-owned business directory

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 22-1001 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new definition of “New York city housing authority tenant-owned business” in alphabetical order to read as follows:

New York city housing authority tenant-owned business. The term “New York city housing authority tenant-owned business” means a business that is at least 51 percent owned and controlled by a current resident in a development owned or operated by New York city housing authority.

§ 2. Chapter 10 of title 22 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 22-1007 to read as follows:

§ 22-1007 New York city housing authority tenant-owned business directory. a. No later than July 1, 2024, and updated annually thereafter, the department shall create an online business directory of New York city housing authority tenant-owned businesses which shall be available on a publicly accessible website. The department shall develop an accompanying marketing campaign to highlight the New York city housing authority tenant-owned business directory. The directory shall be available in the designated citywide languages, as defined in section 23-1101.

b. The department shall, in consultation with the New York city housing authority or other appropriate agency, determine the method for New York city housing authority tenant-owned businesses to register or certify to be included in the directory.

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

 

 

 

 

 

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