Int 0791-2024
| * | Lincoln Restler | | | Requiring the department of social services to post on its website data concerning vacant supportive housing units | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Social Services (DSS) to post on its website data concerning vacant supportive housing units, including the total number and percentage of all supportive housing units in the city that are vacant, as well as the number of vacant units at different stages in the placement process. DSS would be required to provide data on supportive housing units by January 1, 2026, and other data related to units within the Human Resources Administration’s HIV/AIDS Services (HASA) program by June 1, 2026. DSS would be required to update certain information monthly and quarterly. | | |
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Int 1175-2025
| * | Julie Menin | | | Civil legal services for income-eligible domestic violence survivors in divorce proceedings. | Introduction | This bill would require the Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence (ENDGBV) to establish a program, subject to appropriation, to provide income-eligible domestic violence survivors with both brief legal assistance and full legal representation throughout a divorce proceeding. ENDGBV would be required to undertake outreach about the program through written materials posted online and at family justice centers. ENDGBV would be required to submit to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council an annual report with data on the program for the preceding year. | | |
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Int 1208-2025
| * | Jennifer Gutiérrez | | | Report and study on air conditioning in homeless shelters. | Introduction | This bill would require the Commissioner of Social Services and the Commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development, to issue a biannual report to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council on the availability of air conditioning in homeless shelters. The report would, in part, include information on which shelters have any air conditioning, the location of air conditioners, the type of air conditioning provided, repair needs, which shelters installed air conditioning during the past reporting period, and which shelters are planning to install air conditioning within the next reporting period. The report would have to be posted on the Department of Social Service’s website. The bill would also require that the respective Council Member be notified within 30 days of any outage of air conditioning for 72 hours or more at a shelter in their district. The bill would also require a one-time study assessing the needs required to install air conditioning in shelters that do not have air conditioning. | | |
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Int 1232-2025
| * | Chris Banks | | | Notifications for emergency rental assistance grant approvals. | Introduction | This bill would require the Human Resources Administration (“HRA”) to make available, as a part of the application for emergency assistance grants for rental assistance, processes by which applicants may authorize HRA to send a text or email notification to the applicant and/or to the building owner or a managing agent designated by the building owner upon the approval of such application. The notification to applicants would inform them that a determination on their application has been reached and how to access the determination using ACCESS HRA. The notification to building owners or managing agents would not contain identifiable information about the applicant but would inform them how to access certain details about the determination via a secure web portal. | | |
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Res 0362-2024
| * | Erik D. Bottcher | | Proposed Res. No. 362-A | Social Worker Workforce Act (A.701/S.988). | Resolution | | | |
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Res 0839-2025
| * | Alexa Avilés | | | Establish a SNAP and cash assistance fraud victims compensation fund (A03578/S00403). | Resolution | | | |
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