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Int 0607-2024
| * | Shekar Krishnan | | Proposed Int. No. 607-A | Requiring tenant relocation services to the same community district, a nearby community district, or the same borough. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to relocate tenants who lost their homes due to a fire or other emergency in the same or an immediately adjacent community district upon request. When no suitable accommodation is available in the same or immediately adjacent community district, the bill would require HPD to relocate such tenants to the nearest community district in the same borough, where possible. | | |
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Int 0749-2024
| * | Jennifer Gutiérrez | | Proposed Int. No. 749-A | Designation of an office or agency as responsible for assisting residents displaced by an emergency. | Introduction | This bill would require the mayor to designate an agency or office to provide centralized support to residents displaced by a fire, natural disaster, or other emergency impacting a residential building. The designated agency or office would be required to serve as a point of contact for displaced residents by responding to inquiries and requests for assistance, and by facilitating communication between residents and relevant agencies. When an agency determines that it is safe to reoccupy a building from which residents were displaced, the designated agency or office must attempt to notify such residents, as well as the relevant community board and elected officials. | | |
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Int 0750-2024
| * | Jennifer Gutiérrez | | Proposed Int. No. 750-A | Requiring additional documentation when an owner seeks to demolish a building and reporting on the correction of violations | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Buildings (“DOB”) to publish a report on the time elapsed to correct violations in certain residential buildings, including information such as the number of days between when DOB issued a notice of violation to when DOB accepted the correction, and whether the violation remained uncorrected for more than 6 months. Additionally, when a property owner has been issued a vacate order and seeks to demolish the building, the owner would be required to submit documentation to show the steps taken to correct unresolved violations related to the vacate order before seeking to demolish a building. | | |
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Res 0307-2024
| * | Jennifer Gutiérrez | | | Limits the duration of time for which a landlord can collect payment from loss of rents insurance coverage without conducting meaningful repairs to an uninhabitable unit leased by a tenant to three months. | Resolution | | | |
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Res 0802-2025
| * | Julie Won | | | Protecting tenants displaced due to fire (S.3886/A.5427). | Resolution | | | |
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