File #: Int 0985-2023    Version: * Name: Provision of senior citizen rent increase exemption application forms pre-populated with applicable data to eligible persons living in city-supervised Mitchell-Lama housing.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Aging
On agenda: 4/11/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to provision of senior citizen rent increase exemption application forms pre-populated with applicable data to eligible persons living in city-supervised Mitchell-Lama housing
Sponsors: Eric Dinowitz, Kalman Yeger , Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson, Shahana K. Hanif, Amanda Farías, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Shaun Abreu, Shekar Krishnan, Marjorie Velázquez, Kevin C. Riley, Gale A. Brewer, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Christopher Marte, Lynn C. Schulman
Council Member Sponsors: 15
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to, in coordination with the Department of Finance, provide an application form for the senior citizen rent increase exemption program to eligible residents in Mitchell-Lama apartment buildings subject to city supervision with the necessary application information pre-filled on the form. The form is to be provided after eligible residents submit their income verification affidavit and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development confirms the information in the affidavit matches necessary state tax records.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 985, 2. Int. No. 985, 3. April 11, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-11-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 11, 2023, 6. Committee Report 11/28/23, 7. Hearing Testimony 11/28/23, 8. Hearing Transcript 11/28/23
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12/31/2023*Eric Dinowitz City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/28/2023*Eric Dinowitz Committee on Aging Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
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4/11/2023*Eric Dinowitz City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
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Int. No. 985

 

By Council Members Dinowitz, Yeger, Restler, Hudson, Hanif, Farías, Sanchez, Abreu, Krishnan, Velázquez, Riley, Brewer, Gutiérrez, Marte and Schulman

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to provision of senior citizen rent increase exemption application forms pre-populated with applicable data to eligible persons living in city-supervised Mitchell-Lama housing

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 11-139 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law 80 of 2020, is amended by adding a new subdivision d to read as follows:

d. Residents in Mitchell-Lama housing subject to city income verification.  Where residents in a Mitchell-Lama development satisfactorily submit an annual income verification affidavit to the department of housing preservation and development and where the gross household income for such residents stated in such affidavit matches the gross household income for such residents stated in records of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, and such residents otherwise meets the eligibility criteria for the senior citizen rent increase exemption program, the department of housing preservation and development shall in coordination with the department of finance provide to such residents an application form, pre-populated with applicable data, for the senior citizen rent increase exemption program. Such form shall be accompanied with a letter from the department of housing preservation and development explaining to such residents what the senior citizen rent increase exemption program is, why they are receiving the form, and instructions for such residents to review, complete as necessary, and return the form to the department of housing preservation and development to begin the enrollment process in the senior citizen rent increase exemption program. For the purposes of this subdivision, “Mitchell-Lama development” shall mean a housing development organized pursuant to article two of the private housing finance law and is supervised by the department of housing preservation and development.

§ 2.  This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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