NYC Council Introduction 224

intro.nyc/0224-2026 2026-2029 Legislative Session
Creating an interagency task force on squatting.
Status: Committee Committee on Housing and Buildings
Sponsored by Kamillah Hanks
Introduced: January 29, 2026

This bill would create an interagency taskforce to address issues regarding squatting in the city, including the removal of persons squatting on properties, helping them find legitimate housing, identifying properties where people are or might be squatting, communicating with the owners of abandoned properties to ensure that such properties do not remain abandoned, and notifying the owners of abandoned properties of their obligation to maintain such properties, and enforcing that obligation.