File #: Int 0607-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring tenant relocation services to the same community district, a nearby community district, or the same borough.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 3/7/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring tenant relocation services to the same community district, a nearby community district, or the same borough
Sponsors: Shekar Krishnan, Alexa Avilés, Lincoln Restler, Gale A. Brewer, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Lynn C. Schulman, Chi A. Ossé, Carlina Rivera , Julie Won, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Erik D. Bottcher, Diana I. Ayala, Christopher Marte, Farah N. Louis, Sandra Ung, (in conjunction with the Brooklyn Borough Presiden
Council Member Sponsors: 15
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to relocate tenants who lost their homes due to a fire or other emergency in the same or an immediately adjacent community district upon request. When no suitable accommodation is available in the same or immediately adjacent community district, the bill would require HPD to relocate such tenants to the nearest community district in the same borough.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 607, 2. Int. No. 607, 3. March 7, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-7-24, 5. Committee Report 4/25/24

                     Int. No. 607

 

By Council Members Krishnan, Avilés, Restler, Brewer, Gutiérrez, Schulman, Ossé, Rivera, Won, Sanchez, Bottcher, Ayala, Marte, Louis and Ung (in conjunction with the Brooklyn Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring tenant relocation services to the same community district, a nearby community district, or the same borough

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. The undesignated subparagraph of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 26-301 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 159 for the year 2019, is amended to read as follows:                     

 Such services may be provided as such commissioner may deem necessary, useful or appropriate for the relocation of such tenants, including but not limited to the gathering and furnishing of information as to suitable vacant accommodations, the making of studies and surveys for the purpose of locating such accommodations and the provision of facilities for the registration of such accommodations with the department of housing preservation and development by owners, lessors and managing agents of real property and others. For any tenant applying for relocation services pursuant to subparagraph (v) of this paragraph, such services may also include the provision of temporary housing. Such commissioner shall not impose any deadline or limitation of time in which a tenant may apply for relocation services pursuant to subparagraph (v) of this paragraph. Tenants receiving relocation services pursuant to subparagraph (v) of this paragraph shall be relocated at their request to suitable vacant accommodations in the same community district, or an immediately adjacent community district, as the building from which such tenants were displaced. If, following such a request, suitable vacant accommodations are unavailable in such same or immediately adjacent community district, then such tenants shall be relocated to suitable vacant accommodations in the nearest community district in the same borough, where possible. For purposes of this chapter, "temporary housing" includes, but is not limited to, hotels, motels, or other temporary shelter provided to a tenant by or on behalf of the department or provided pursuant to an agreement with the department.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

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