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Int 0791-2024
| * | Lincoln Restler | | | Requiring the department of social services to post on its website data concerning vacant supportive housing units | Introduction | This bill would require the department of social services (DSS) to post on its website data concerning vacant supportive housing units, including the total number and percentage of all supportive housing units in the city that are vacant, as well as the number of vacant units at different stages in the placement process. DSS would be required to provide data beginning twelve months prior to the enactment of the law, and to update the information monthly thereafter. | | |
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Int 1175-2025
| * | Julie Menin | | | Civil legal services for domestic violence survivors in divorce proceedings. | Introduction | This bill would require the Office of Civil Justice (OCJ) to establish a program, subject to appropriation, to provide domestic violence survivors with legal representation throughout a divorce proceeding. OCJ would be required to submit to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council an annual report with data on the program for the preceding year. | | |
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Int 1208-2025
| * | Jennifer Gutiérrez | | | Report on air conditioning in homeless shelters. | Introduction | This bill would require the Commissioner of Homeless Services, in coordination with the Commissioner of Social Services, Commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development, and Commissioner of Youth and Community Development, to issue a one-time report to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council on the availability of air conditioning in homeless shelters. The report would, in part, include information on which shelters have any air conditioning, which have air conditioning in only some areas of the shelter, which have air conditioning throughout the shelter, the type of air conditioning provided, which shelters have air conditioning that needs repair, which shelters installed air conditioning during the past 12 months, and which shelters are planning to install air conditioning within the next 12 months. The report would have to be posted on the relevant agencies’ websites. | | |
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Int 1232-2025
| * | Chris Banks | | | Notifications for emergency rental assistance grant approvals. | Introduction | This bill would require the Human Resources Administration (“HRA”) to provide an automated text message or email notification upon the approval of an application for the Emergency Assistance Grant Program pertaining to rental assistance. Such approval notification shall be delivered to the tenant applying for assistance and the building owner or managing agent designated by the building owner to collect rental payments from the applicant, to the extent that such information is provided in the application. Notifications would include information on the monetary amount of the award via the emergency assistance grant, an estimated issuance date for the assistance, and the mode of delivery for the corresponding check. | | |
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Res 0839-2025
| * | Alexa Avilés | | | Establish a SNAP and cash assistance fraud victims compensation fund (A03578/S00403). | Resolution | | | |
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