Senate Bill S5812

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to protecting the rights of Mitchell-Lama residents

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S5812 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4491
Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
Housing
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8461, A7366
2019-2020: S2544, A6217
2023-2024: S2660, A1037

2021-S5812 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to protecting the rights of current and converted Mitchell-Lama residents.

2021-S5812 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S5812 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5812
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 18, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
   Community Development
 
 AN  ACT relating to protecting the rights of current and converted Mitc-
   hell-Lama residents
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Protecting  the rights of current and converted Mitchell-
 Lama residents. 1. New  York  State  Homes  and  Community  Renewal,  in
 consultation  with the New York City Department of Housing Preservation,
 shall appoint an independent agency or office, which will solicit  resi-
 dent complaints and will provide unbiased grievance and complaint proce-
 dures  that  are consistent with the administrative procedures act.  The
 independent agency or office will handle  all  Mitchell-Lama  complaints
 including, but not limited to, the following:
   a. owner/management company/co-op board harassment and abuse;
   b.  enjoying  the benefit of unnecessarily and financially unsupported
 rent/carrying charge increases;
   c.  failure  to  adequately  reconcile  tenant  rent/carrying   charge
 records;
   d. failure to provide essential services on a consistent basis;
   e. failure to provide a decent, sanitary and safe living environment;
   f. failure to hold open and transparent co-op board elections;
   g. failure to notify and include all residents of building/development
 conversions; and
   h.  failure  to  lower  rents/carrying charges for eligible residents,
 when a subsidy program that is already in development  will  lower  that
 resident's rent/carrying charges.
   2.  The practice of approving refinancing and/or conversion "windfall"
 deals shall be eliminated unless the ownership, managing agents,  co-ops
 boards,  the  New  York city supervised Mitchell-Lama developments (HPD)
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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