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A00675 Summary:

BILL NOA00675
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORRosenthal D
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd 402, Pub Hous L
 
Provides that elderly and long-time residents of public housing shall not be subject to transfers based on family composition.
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A00675 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           675
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. D. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Housing
 
        AN ACT to amend the public housing law,  in  relation  to  limiting  the
          right  of  the New York city housing authority to transfer elderly and
          long-time residents from their housing accommodations

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 6 of section 402 of the public housing law, as
     2  added by chapter 970 of the laws of 1968, is amended to read as follows:
     3    6. In addition to all other powers granted by this  chapter,  the  New
     4  York  city  housing  authority shall have the power to act as and be and
     5  become a "developer", as that term is defined  in  subdivision  nine  of
     6  section four hundred fifty-two of the education law, of a combined occu-
     7  pancy  structure, as defined in subdivision five of section four hundred
     8  fifty-two of such law, which consists of a project, as defined  in  this
     9  chapter,  as well as of school accommodations or other facilities of the
    10  board of education of the city of New York, and  to  be  and  become  an
    11  "owner",  as  that  term  is defined in subdivision fifteen-a of section
    12  four hundred fifty-two of the education law, of the non-school  portion,
    13  consisting  of  a  project  as defined in this chapter, of such combined
    14  occupancy structure; and to do all things  necessary  or  convenient  to
    15  carry out such powers, including (a) construction of such combined occu-
    16  pancy  structure as a developer pursuant to the provisions of this chap-
    17  ter and article ten of the education law, and conveyance or lease of the
    18  school portion thereof, and (b) as an owner, making  and  entering  into
    19  contracts  for  acquisition,  lease, sublease or other agreements for or
    20  with respect to the non-school  portion,  consisting  of  a  project  as
    21  defined  in  this  chapter, pursuant to the provisions of article ten of
    22  the education law, and acquiring the same by transfer or  conveyance  to

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04978-01-1

        A. 675                              2
 
     1  it  of  the  fee  title,  or of possession under such lease, sublease or
     2  other agreement.
     3    Notwithstanding  any law to the contrary, any resident lease agreement
     4  entered into by the  New  York  city  housing  authority,  containing  a
     5  "transfer  to  appropriate  size apartment" provision, or such provision
     6  having substantially the same effect, shall not apply where a member  of
     7  the  household lawfully occupying the housing accommodation is sixty-two
     8  years of age or older, or has been a tenant in the housing accommodation
     9  in that building for twenty years or more.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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