File #: Int 0453-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring the establishment of intake centers for families with children.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on General Welfare
On agenda: 2/28/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the establishment of intake centers for families with children
Sponsors: Sandra Ung, Shahana K. Hanif, Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) to establish one additional intake center for families with children in either the borough of Brooklyn or the borough of Queens. DHS would be required to open the intake center within three years of the effective date of the law however, if the selected location for such intake center would require submission of an application pursuant to the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), DHS would have three years to file an application pursuant to ULURP for that location.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 453, 2. Int. No. 453, 3. February 28, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-28-24

Int. No. 453

 

By Council Members Ung, Hanif, Restler and Hudson

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the establishment of intake centers for families with children

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Section 1. Chapter 3 of title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 21-328 to read as follows:

§ 21-328 Establishment of intake centers for families with children. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Family intake center. The term “family intake center” means a department facility that accepts and processes applications for shelter from families with children.

Shelter. The term “shelter” means housing provided to individuals and families by the department or a provider under contract or similar agreement with the department.

b. Within two years of the effective date of the local law that added this section, and each year thereafter, the department shall establish at least one new family intake center in a borough without an existing family intake center. Each such family intake center shall be located in a geographic area that is easily accessible and in close proximity to public transportation. The department shall not be required to open any additional family intake centers so long as the department maintains at least one operational family intake center in each borough.

 § 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

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