Allows prospective tenants of rent controlled or rent stabilized housing accommodations to request the complete rent history of such housing accommodations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3569
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 28, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. CLEARE, JACKSON, WEBB -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing,
Construction and Community Development
AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to allowing prospec-
tive tenants of rent controlled or rent stabilized housing accommo-
dations to request the complete rent history of such housing accommo-
dations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 14 of the public housing law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
3 8. The agency shall promulgate regulations, rules and policies which
4 provide for the ability of a prospective tenant, defined as an applicant
5 who has made a good faith deposit with the intention to enter into a
6 lease for a rent controlled or rent stabilized housing accommodation
7 protected by the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-
8 four, the emergency housing rent control law, the local emergency hous-
9 ing rent control act, the administrative code of the city of New York
10 and any regulations, rules and policies enacted pursuant thereto, to
11 request and receive a copy of the complete rent history of such rent
12 controlled or rent stabilized housing accommodation. Such rent histories
13 shall at a minimum include records back to the year nineteen hundred
14 seventy-four.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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