Bill Text: NY A03807 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes an affordable housing five-year capital plan.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-06-08 - substituted by s2193a [A03807 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03807-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3807--A
                                                                    R. R. 89

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. CYMBROWITZ, OTIS, RODRIGUEZ, SIMON, HYNDMAN --
          read once and referred to the Committee on  Housing  --  reported  and
          referred  to  the Committee on Ways and Means -- reported and referred
          to the Committee on Rules -- amended on the  special  order  of  third
          reading,  ordered  reprinted  as  amended,  retaining its place on the
          special order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in  relation  to  an  affordable
          housing five-year capital plan

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  20-a to read as follows:
     3    §  20-a.  Affordable housing five-year capital plan. 1. For the fiscal
     4  year commencing on April first, two thousand twenty-two and every  fifth
     5  fiscal year thereafter, the governor shall submit to the legislature, as
     6  part of the annual executive budget, a statewide comprehensive five-year
     7  capital  plan  to  support  the  development,  preservation  and capital
     8  improvement of affordable housing in New York state.
     9    2. The statewide comprehensive five-year capital plan to  support  the
    10  development,  preservation and capital improvement of affordable housing
    11  in New York state required pursuant to subdivision one of  this  section
    12  shall  be developed in consultation with any state department, agency or
    13  public authority which administers and/or plans for the  development  of
    14  any  program  intended  to provide suitable housing accommodations which
    15  may fall under the purview of the capital plan and shall provide for, at
    16  a minimum: the development of supportive housing units; the preservation
    17  and/or capital improvement of public housing units of the New York  city
    18  housing authority and other public housing authorities in the state; the
    19  development  and/or  rehabilitation  of  affordable  housing targeted to
    20  low-income seniors; the  rehabilitation  of  site-specific  multi-family
    21  rental  housing  currently  under a regulatory agreement or extended use

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06470-03-1
        A. 3807--A                          2

     1  agreement with the division of housing and community renewal or  another
     2  state,  federal or local housing agency; the preservation and/or capital
     3  improvement of Mitchell-Lama properties; the promotion of home ownership
     4  among  families  of  low-  and  moderate-income;  and  the repair and/or
     5  replacement of mobile and manufactured homes. Such plan  shall,  to  the
     6  greatest  extent  possible:  provide  for  both rental and homeownership
     7  opportunities affordable to low- and moderate-income  households  across
     8  the  state; address areas and populations with critical affordable hous-
     9  ing needs; and advance the  specific  housing  priorities  of  New  York
    10  state.
    11    3.  On  or  before  September first, two thousand twenty-two and on or
    12  before September first annually  thereafter,  and  on  or  before  March
    13  first,  two  thousand twenty-three and on or before March first annually
    14  thereafter, the governor shall, as part of the  statewide  comprehensive
    15  five-year  capital  plan  to  support  the development, preservation and
    16  capital improvement of affordable housing in  New  York  state  required
    17  pursuant to subdivision one of this section and in consultation with the
    18  commissioner  of housing and community renewal, submit and make publicly
    19  available to the legislature and on the division's  website  information
    20  summarizing  the  activities  undertaken  pursuant  to  the funding made
    21  available in the enacted affordable housing capital plan. Such  informa-
    22  tion  shall  be  cumulative  and  shall include an itemized list of each
    23  project utilizing funds appropriated by the affordable  housing  capital
    24  plan  subsequent to the enactment of the capital plan, including a brief
    25  description of the project, street address, county, awardee, total budg-
    26  et, amount of capital subsidy appropriated  by  the  affordable  housing
    27  capital  plan,  relevant section of the affordable housing capital plan,
    28  bonded or cash, amount of each additional public funding source, funding
    29  program, number of units, area median income requirements if applicable,
    30  month and year construction will commence, projected date of  occupancy,
    31  and  project phase (in development, engineering, construction, complete,
    32  defunded).
    33    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.