NYC Council Introduction 872

intro.nyc/0872-2024 2024-2025 Legislative Session
Creating an interagency task force on squatting.
Status: Committee Committee on Housing and Buildings
Sponsored by Kamillah Hanks
Introduced: May 16, 2024

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.