File #: Int 0617-2024    Version: * Name: Information on affordable housing units
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 information on affordable housing units
Sponsors: Christopher Marte, Farah N. Louis, Diana I. Ayala, Tiffany Cabán, Crystal Hudson, Chi A. Ossé, Kevin C. Riley
Council Member Sponsors: 7
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Buildings to include questions about affordable housing units on the PW1 application form for proposed work or alterations to a building. Applicants would be required to include on the PW1 application form: (i) the number of affordable units in the building; (ii) the number of additional affordable units that will be constructed, if any; and (iii) the income eligibility for each affordable unit in the building and each affordable unit that will be constructed, if any.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 617, 2. Int. No. 617, 3. March 7, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-7-24

Int. No. 617

 

By Council Members Marte, Louis, Ayala, Cabán, Hudson, Ossé and Riley

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to information on affordable housing units

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 33 of title 26 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 169 for the year 2021, is redesignated chapter 34 of such title, and sections 26-3301 and 26-3302 are redesignated 26-3401 and 26-3402, respectively.

§ 2. Title 26 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter 35 to read as follows:

CHAPTER 35

INFORMATION ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS

§ 26-3501 Definitions. As used in this section, the term “affordable housing unit” has the same meaning ascribed to such term in section 26-2201.

§ 26-3502 Affordable housing units. The commissioner of buildings shall require applicants applying to perform proposed work or alterations to a building to indicate on the department of buildings’ PW1 application form, and any other application form required for proposed work or alterations, the following information:

a. The total number of affordable housing units in the building;

b. The total number of additional affordable housing units that will be constructed as part of the proposed work or alteration, if any; and

c. The income eligibility criteria for each affordable housing unit in the building and each additional affordable housing unit that will be constructed, if any.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

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