Directs the housing trust fund corporation to administer a New York small cities community development program to encourage the rehabilitation and repair of local housing in cities, as accounted in the most recent United State census, with a population less than one hundred thousand.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6283
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 3, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. NORRIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Housing
AN ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to direct-
ing the housing trust fund corporation to administer a New York small
cities community development program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 45-a of the private housing finance law is amended
2 by adding a new subdivision 11-a to read as follows:
3 11-a. The corporation shall create and administer a New York small
4 cities community development program to encourage the rehabilitation and
5 repair of local housing in cities, as accounted in the most recent
6 United States census, with a population less than one hundred thousand
7 for the physical improvement and revitalization of single and two family
8 homes including, but not limited to, the replacement or significant
9 repair of roofs, sidings, exterior doors, windows, foundations, gutters,
10 porches, driveways, detached garages, and other improvements necessary
11 to correct any building code violations. The program shall follow the
12 regulations as defined for the federal small cities community develop-
13 ment block grant by the federal Housing and Community Development Act of
14 1974. This program shall be subject to appropriation by the state.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2024.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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