Int. No. 420
By Council Members Lander, James, Rose, Williams, Mendez, Mark-Viverito, Van Bramer, Garodnick, Barron, Jackson, Rodriguez, Koppell, Brewer and Levin
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the dissemination of information concerning Local Law 10 of 2008.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 8 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add a new section 8-132 to read as follows:
§8-132. a. For purposes of this section, "subsidy providing agency" shall mean the administration for children's services, the department of homeless services, the department of housing preservation and development, the human resources administration/department of social services, the new york city housing authority, and any other city agency that administers any form of federal, state or local public or housing assistance.
b. The commission shall develop a pamphlet regarding source of income discrimination. At a minimum, such pamphlet shall make clear that Local Law 10 of 2008 protects recipients of any kind of federal, state or local public or housing assistance from housing discrimination based on their source(s) of income and shall include detailed information regarding the actions that an individual may take if such individual believes that he or she is a victim of source of income discrimination.
c. The commission shall furnish subsidy providing agencies with such pamphlet in sufficient quantity to enable each agency to distribute such pamphlet to each housing subsidy recipient.
d. Subsidy providing agencies shall provide such pamphlet to each housing subsidy recipient concomitant with the issuance of each subsidy.
§2. This local law shall take effect sixty days after its enactment.
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