File #: Int 1093-2024    Version: * Name: Increasing the percentage of disability set aside units in affordable housing projects.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 10/23/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing the percentage of disability set aside units in affordable housing projects
Sponsors: Linda Lee, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to require developers who receive city financial assistance for a housing development project to set aside at least 10 percent of units for individuals with mobility issues and at least 5 percent of units for individuals with vision or hearing impairments.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1093, 2. Int. No. 1093, 3. October 23, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-23-24

Int. No. 1093

 

By Council Members Lee and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing the percentage of disability set aside units in affordable housing projects

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. The title of chapter 28 of title 26 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 19 for the year 2020, is amended to read as follows:

CHAPTER 28

SET ASIDES IN HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS [FOR HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES]

§ 2. Section 26-2802 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 19 for the year 2020, is amended to read as follows:

§ 26-2802 Set asides. The department shall require that any developer who receives city financial assistance for a housing development project sets aside [for homeless individuals and families at least 15 percent] the following percentages of the number of dwelling units offered for rent in such housing development project that are subject to a regulatory agreement requiring that occupancy of such units be restricted based on the income of occupants in such housing development project[.]:

    1.  At least 15 percent for homeless individuals and families;

    2.  At least 10 percent for individuals with mobility issues; and

    3.  At least 5 percent for individuals with vision or hearing impairments.

§ 3. Subdivision a of section 26-2803 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 19 for the year 2020, is amended to read as follows:

   a.   For each housing development project that received city financial assistance in the preceding fiscal year, (i) the number of dwelling units offered for rent that are subject to a regulatory agreement requiring that occupancy of such units be restricted based on the income of the occupants, (ii) the number of such units set aside for homeless individuals and families, [and] (iii) the number of such units set aside for individuals with mobility issues, (iv) the number of such units set aside for individuals with vision or hearing impairments, and (v) whether such housing development project is a supportive housing project; and

§ 4. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

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