Relates to requiring affordable housing projects to calculate and only use the area median income for the specific county that the project is located in for determining affordability.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5968
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 17, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. BARNWELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to requiring
affordable housing projects to calculate and only use the area median
income for the specific county that the project is located in for
determining affordability
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 421-a of the real property tax law
2 is amended by adding a new paragraph e to read as follows:
3 e. "Area Median Income (AMI)." Whenever calculating the affordability
4 of a project, AMI shall be based solely on the specific county where the
5 project shall be located.
6 § 2. All affordable housing projects, including, but not limited to,
7 421-a projects, shall only use the area median income (AMI) for the
8 specific county that the project is located in for determining afforda-
9 bility.
10 § 3. 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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