Requires certain housing projects in a city with a population of one million or more to designate a minimum of thirty-two percent of the dwelling units in such project for low income housing to be eligible for state funding.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9758--A
IN ASSEMBLY
February 10, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Housing -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to imposing require-
ments on receipt of state funding by certain housing projects in a
city with a population of one million or more
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a new section
2 77 to read as follows:
3 § 77. Conditions precedent to certain state funding. 1. Notwithstand-
4 ing any provision of law to the contrary, no project for new
5 construction, reconstruction or rehabilitation of housing located in a
6 city with a population of one million or more shall be eligible for any
7 source of state funding, including but not limited to, loans, subsidies
8 or tax incentives unless the commissioner finds that a minimum of thir-
9 ty-two percent of the dwelling units in such project are designated for
10 low income housing. A number of such designated dwelling units equaling
11 two percent of the total dwelling units in such project shall be offered
12 to the construction workers who worked on the project through a lottery.
13 2. Such findings shall be conclusive evidence of the facts therein
14 contained except upon proof of fraud or willful misfeasance by the
15 commissioner.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15150-03-0
