STATE OF NEW YORK
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1810
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to a housing author-
ity's disposition of property
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (k) of subdivision 1 of section 37 of the public
2 housing law, as amended by chapter 858 of the laws of 1968, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (k) lease or rent, as lessor or sublessor, any of the housing or other
5 accommodations or any of the lands, buildings, structures or facilities
6 embraced in any project or connected with any program to provide dwell-
7 ing accommodations for persons of low income, and establish and revise
8 the rents or charges therefor. However, the lease or sale of any such
9 lands, buildings, structures or facilities owned, leased, or otherwise
10 in the control of an authority shall occur only after consultation with
11 and approval by an affected resident advisory board or boards, as
12 defined by section 903.13 of title 24 of the code of federal regu-
13 lations, and evidenced by a letter issued by such board after a vote of
14 the majority of its members, and pursuant to the federal rules and regu-
15 lations applicable to applications for the disposition of property
16 belonging to an authority;
17 § 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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