Requires the city of New York to consult with the community board of the district and all local elected officials where a proposed homeless shelter or use of commercial hotel space to shelter homeless individuals shall be located, at least three hundred sixty-five days beforehand.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5719
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 20, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Cities
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to the placement of homeless shelters
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
2 by adding a new section 21-124.2 to read as follows:
3 § 21-124.2 Placement of homeless shelters. a. The city shall not
4 propose the location of a homeless shelter or establish a homeless shel-
5 ter without consulting with the community board of the district and all
6 local elected officials of the district where such proposed homeless
7 shelter shall be located at least three hundred sixty-five days before-
8 hand.
9 b. The city shall not plan to use over thirty percent of the rooms in
10 a commercial hotel, or pay for over twenty percent of the rooms in a
11 commercial hotel, or reserve all the rooms on a floor in a commercial
12 hotel for the purpose of providing shelter for homeless individuals, or
13 change the use of an existing shelter, without consulting with the
14 community board of the district and all local elected officials of the
15 district where such commercial hotel is located at least three hundred
16 sixty-five days beforehand.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09795-01-5
