STATE OF NEW YORK
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10576
IN ASSEMBLY
June 3, 2020
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cymbrowitz)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to an affordable
housing five-year capital plan
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 20-a to read as follows:
3 § 20-a. Affordable housing five-year capital plan. 1. For the fiscal
4 year commencing on April first, two thousand twenty-two and every fifth
5 fiscal year thereafter, the governor shall submit to the legislature, as
6 part of the annual executive budget, a statewide comprehensive five-year
7 capital plan to support the development, preservation and capital
8 improvement of affordable housing in New York state.
9 2. The statewide comprehensive five-year capital plan to support the
10 development, preservation and capital improvement of affordable housing
11 in New York state required pursuant to subdivision one of this section
12 shall be developed in consultation with any state department, agency or
13 public authority which administers and/or plans for the development of
14 any program intended to provide suitable housing accommodations which
15 may fall under the purview of the capital plan and shall provide for, at
16 a minimum: the development of supportive housing units; the preservation
17 and/or capital improvement of public housing units of the New York city
18 housing authority and other public housing authorities in the state; the
19 development and/or rehabilitation of affordable housing targeted to
20 low-income seniors; the rehabilitation of site-specific multi-family
21 rental housing currently under a regulatory agreement or extended use
22 agreement with the division of housing and community renewal or another
23 state, federal or local housing agency; the preservation and/or capital
24 improvement of Mitchell-Lama properties; the promotion of home ownership
25 among families of low- and moderate-income; and the repair and/or
26 replacement of mobile and manufactured homes. Such plan shall, to the
27 greatest extent possible: provide for both rental and homeownership
28 opportunities affordable to low- and moderate-income households across
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 the state; address areas and populations with critical affordable hous-
2 ing needs; and advance the specific housing priorities of New York
3 state.
4 3. On or before September first, two thousand twenty-two and on or
5 before September first annually thereafter, and on or before March
6 first, two thousand twenty-three and on or before March first annually
7 thereafter, the governor shall, as part of the statewide comprehensive
8 five-year capital plan to support the development, preservation and
9 capital improvement of affordable housing in New York state required
10 pursuant to subdivision one of this section and in consultation with the
11 commissioner of housing and community renewal, submit and make publicly
12 available to the legislature and on the division's website information
13 summarizing the activities undertaken pursuant to the funding made
14 available in the enacted affordable housing capital plan. Such informa-
15 tion shall be cumulative and shall include an itemized list of each
16 project utilizing funds appropriated by the affordable housing capital
17 plan subsequent to the enactment of the capital plan, including a brief
18 description of the project, street address, county, awardee, total budg-
19 et, amount of capital subsidy appropriated by the affordable housing
20 capital plan, relevant section of the affordable housing capital plan,
21 bonded or cash, amount of each additional public funding source, funding
22 program, number of units, area median income requirements if applicable,
23 month and year construction will commence, projected date of occupancy,
24 and project phase (in development, engineering, construction, complete,
25 defunded).
26 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
27 law.