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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Mar 18, 2021 |
referred to housing, construction and community development |
Senate Bill S5812
2021-2022 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) 14th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2021-S5812 (ACTIVE) - Details
2021-S5812 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S5812 SPONSOR: COMRIE TITLE OF BILL: An act relating to protecting the rights of current and converted Mitc- hell-Lama residents PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This bill would require the New York City Department of Housing to designate an independent agency or office, with no financial or working relationship with the owners, management companies; and co-op boards should be responsible for reviewing and investigating complaints filed by all Mitchell-Lama residents. This independent agency or office should be empowered to receive, investigate, mediate, hear, make findings and recommend action, and make a decision on complaints against landlords, managing agents, co-op boards. When relevant, the independent agency or office will also adjudicate complaints filed by residents, against the units or departments within the New York City Housing Preservation and Development and Division of Housing and Community Renewal that currently supervise their Mitchell-Lama developments. Residents who allege abuse
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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