Details Meeting Name: Committee on Housing and Buildings Agenda status: Final Meeting date/time: 11/12/2024 10:00 AM Minutes status: Final   Meeting location: Council Chambers - City Hall Published agenda: Agenda Published minutes: Minutes   Meeting video: Video   Attachments: CLICK ANY FILE # BELOW (in blue) TO ACCESS LEGISLATION AND ATTACHMENTS Meeting Items (19) 19 records Group Clear sorting Clear grouping Group by Type Group by Result Export Export to Excel Export to PDF Export to Word Show: All agenda items Legislation only All agenda items File # Ver. Prime Sponsor Agenda # Agenda Note Name Type Summary Action Result Action Details Multimedia                     Roll call Not available T2024-2630 *       Oversight - Tenant Harassment and Safety. Oversight   Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available T2024-2630 *       Oversight - Tenant Harassment and Safety. Oversight   Filed, by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0621-2024 * Sandy Nurse     Expanding the definition of tenant harassment to include unlawful evictions and expanding the certificate of no harassment program to include unlawful evictions. Introduction This bill would expand the definition of tenant harassment to include unlawful evictions. Additionally, it would expand the Certificate of No Harassment pilot program to include buildings where owners have been found to have committed unlawful evictions. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0621-2024 * Sandy Nurse     Expanding the definition of tenant harassment to include unlawful evictions and expanding the certificate of no harassment program to include unlawful evictions. Introduction This bill would expand the definition of tenant harassment to include unlawful evictions. Additionally, it would expand the Certificate of No Harassment pilot program to include buildings where owners have been found to have committed unlawful evictions. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0622-2024 * Sandy Nurse     Injunctive relief for lawful occupants of rental units. Introduction This bill would clarify that in tenant harassment claims, lawful occupants may not be denied injunctive relief, including restoration of possession, because they are not tenants, or on the basis that the court deems such restoration futile because the lawful occupant would be subject to a meritorious claim of possession against them, as long as no such judgment of possession has actually yet been granted. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0622-2024 * Sandy Nurse     Injunctive relief for lawful occupants of rental units. Introduction This bill would clarify that in tenant harassment claims, lawful occupants may not be denied injunctive relief, including restoration of possession, because they are not tenants, or on the basis that the court deems such restoration futile because the lawful occupant would be subject to a meritorious claim of possession against them, as long as no such judgment of possession has actually yet been granted. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0623-2024 * Sandy Nurse     Increasing penalties for unlawful evictions. Introduction This bill would raise civil penalties for unlawful eviction, prohibit building owners who engage in unlawful evictions from taking part of any city subsidy, tax abatement, or tax exemption program for 5 years from the date of unlawful eviction, and allow owners who engage in unlawful evictions to set aside a portion of the building for affordable housing in order to cure the record of such unlawful eviction violations. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0623-2024 * Sandy Nurse     Increasing penalties for unlawful evictions. Introduction This bill would raise civil penalties for unlawful eviction, prohibit building owners who engage in unlawful evictions from taking part of any city subsidy, tax abatement, or tax exemption program for 5 years from the date of unlawful eviction, and allow owners who engage in unlawful evictions to set aside a portion of the building for affordable housing in order to cure the record of such unlawful eviction violations. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0993-2024 * Sandy Nurse     Creating lock change procedures in response to illegal lockouts. Introduction This bill would require the Police Department (NYPD) to create a procedure under which NYPD officers can change the locks on the dwellings of people who have been illegally locked out of those dwellings to allow those who have been illegally locked out to return to their dwellings. The NYPD would be required to add such a procedure to its Patrol Guide. When NYPD officers change locks pursuant to such procedure, they would be required to provide new keys that open the new lock to all the dwelling occupants and to the landlord. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0993-2024 * Sandy Nurse     Creating lock change procedures in response to illegal lockouts. Introduction This bill would require the Police Department (NYPD) to create a procedure under which NYPD officers can change the locks on the dwellings of people who have been illegally locked out of those dwellings to allow those who have been illegally locked out to return to their dwellings. The NYPD would be required to add such a procedure to its Patrol Guide. When NYPD officers change locks pursuant to such procedure, they would be required to provide new keys that open the new lock to all the dwelling occupants and to the landlord. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0994-2024 * Lincoln Restler     Requiring that tenant-occupied dwellings be provided with cooled and dehumidified air. Introduction This bill would require that from June 15 to September 15 building owners that are subject to minimum temperature requirements under local law maintain a maximum indoor temperature of 78°F when the outdoor air temperature is 82°F or higher. Owners without central cooling would have to install cooling systems within residential units. Leases must contain notice of the cooling requirements. All of the abovementioned requirements would be imposed four years after the bill’s effective date. Owners claiming undue hardship would be able to apply for additional time for compliance with the cooling requirements. Owners would have to carry out pre- and post-enforcement reporting to the city concerning compliance with the cooling requirements. The bill would impose separate civil penalties for violation of the cooling and notice requirements. Finally, the city would have to do outreach and education to tenants and owners on owner responsibilities under this bill. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0994-2024 * Lincoln Restler     Requiring that tenant-occupied dwellings be provided with cooled and dehumidified air. Introduction This bill would require that from June 15 to September 15 building owners that are subject to minimum temperature requirements under local law maintain a maximum indoor temperature of 78°F when the outdoor air temperature is 82°F or higher. Owners without central cooling would have to install cooling systems within residential units. Leases must contain notice of the cooling requirements. All of the abovementioned requirements would be imposed four years after the bill’s effective date. Owners claiming undue hardship would be able to apply for additional time for compliance with the cooling requirements. Owners would have to carry out pre- and post-enforcement reporting to the city concerning compliance with the cooling requirements. The bill would impose separate civil penalties for violation of the cooling and notice requirements. Finally, the city would have to do outreach and education to tenants and owners on owner responsibilities under this bill. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 1037-2024 * Sandy Nurse     Posting certain information in multiple dwellings containing rent stabilized units. Introduction This bill would require the owner of a multiple dwelling containing rent stabilized units to post a sign in the common area of such building’s entrance stating that the building contains rent stabilized units and providing information about how tenants can submit inquiries to New York State Homes and Community Renewal to find out if their units are rent stabilized. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 1037-2024 * Sandy Nurse     Posting certain information in multiple dwellings containing rent stabilized units. Introduction This bill would require the owner of a multiple dwelling containing rent stabilized units to post a sign in the common area of such building’s entrance stating that the building contains rent stabilized units and providing information about how tenants can submit inquiries to New York State Homes and Community Renewal to find out if their units are rent stabilized. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Res 0119-2024 * Crystal Hudson     Denying property owners from filing eviction proceedings for tenants who reside in buildings with substantial pending housing maintenance code violations. Resolution   Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Res 0119-2024 * Crystal Hudson     Denying property owners from filing eviction proceedings for tenants who reside in buildings with substantial pending housing maintenance code violations. Resolution   Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Res 0246-2024 * Sandy Nurse     Requiring unlawful eviction cases to be heard within five days. Resolution   Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Res 0246-2024 * Sandy Nurse     Requiring unlawful eviction cases to be heard within five days. Resolution   Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available