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Meeting Name: Committee on Housing and Buildings Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 4/29/2025 10:00 AM Minutes status: Draft  
Meeting location: 250 Broadway - Committee Room, 16th Floor
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T2025-3336 *   Oversight - Housing Connect - Reforming NYC’s Affordable Housing Lottery.Oversight    Not available Not available
Int 1207-2025 *Carmen N. De La Rosa  Allowing for time spent in an apprenticeship to count towards the supervised practical experience time requirement for the granting of high-pressure boiler operating engineer licenses.IntroductionThis bill would allow time spent in an apprenticeship to count towards the three-year supervised practical experience requirement for gaining a high-pressure boiler operating engineer license.   Not available Not available
T2024-2312 *Pierina Ana Sanchez  Requiring the department of housing preservation and development to create an in-person housing portal assistance program.IntroductionThis bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (“HPD”), in cooperation with other relevant agencies, to offer an in-person assistance program for Housing Connect applicants, available in certain public spaces with publicly accessible computers, including older adult centers operated by the Department for the Aging and recreation centers operated by the Department of Parks and Recreation. HPD would be required to conduct outreach to promote awareness of the program.   Not available Not available
T2024-2522 *Pierina Ana Sanchez  Notifications regarding applications in New York City’s housing portal and designation of a representative to receive notifications.IntroductionThis bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) housing portal to provide users with notification by e-mail and text of any update to their applications. This bill would also require the housing portal to permit a user to designate a representative who would receive notifications of any update to the user’s application, new information posted about a unit selected by the user, a new unit available that matches the user’s prescribed criteria, and any other information deemed appropriate by HPD. The designated representative would also be permitted to create a housing portal account to receive these notifications.   Not available Not available
T2025-3412 *Pierina Ana Sanchez  How affordable housing units which subsequently became vacant are rented through the housing portal.IntroductionThis bill would require that the department of housing preservation and development post on the housing portal any previously occupied affordable housing unit available for rent if such unit is required to be rented through the housing portal. It would also require that only users who apply for occupancy of any such unit after the unit has been posted on the housing portal be considered for occupancy of that unit.   Not available Not available