Bill Text: NY A05393 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Includes landlord training classes in the definitions of neighborhood preservation activities and housing preservation and community renewal activities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-06-01 - substituted by s4485a [A05393 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A05393-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5393--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 16, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Housing -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to includ- ing landlord training classes in the definitions of neighborhood pres- ervation activities and housing preservation and community renewal activities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 902 of the private housing finance 2 law, as amended by chapter 295 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 5. "Neighborhood preservation activities" shall mean activities 5 engaged in by a neighborhood preservation company within a geograph- 6 ically defined neighborhood of a municipality, provided, however, that 7 the division may fund a neighborhood preservation company to engage in 8 such activities in unserved and underserved areas of the municipality 9 lying outside of its initially designated neighborhood area, that are 10 designed (a) to construct, maintain, preserve, repair, renovate, 11 upgrade, improve, modernize, rehabilitate or otherwise prolong the 12 useful life and to manage and coordinate the rehabilitation of residen- 13 tial dwelling accommodations within such neighborhood, to restore aban- 14 doned and vacant as well as occupied housing accommodations to habitable 15 condition; to demolish structurally unsound or unsafe or otherwise 16 unsightly or unhealthy structures which no longer serve or can econom- 17 ically be made to serve a useful purpose consistent with stabilizing or 18 improving a neighborhood; to seal and maintain vacant but structurally 19 sound structures which are capable of being rehabilitated at a future 20 time and used for housing purposes; to acquire, where appropriate, 21 buildings which contain housing accommodations; to facilitate the dispo- 22 sition of buildings containing housing accommodations to individual EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07535-02-1A. 5393--A 2 1 occupants thereof or to cooperative groups whose members shall be occu- 2 pants thereof; to assist owners, occupants and tenants of housing accom- 3 modations to obtain improvements in the physical conditions thereof and 4 in the maintenance and management thereof; to administer landlord train- 5 ing classes; and to manage housing accommodations as agents for the 6 owners thereof or administrators or receivers appointed or designated 7 pursuant to any law of the state; and (b) to accomplish similar purposes 8 and meet similar needs with respect to retail and service establishments 9 within such neighborhoods when carried out in connection with and inci- 10 dental to a program of housing related activities. 11 § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 1002 of the private housing finance law, 12 as amended by chapter 668 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as 13 follows: 14 5. "Housing preservation and community renewal activities" include (a) 15 the new construction or the acquisition, maintenance, preservation, 16 repair, rehabilitation or other improvement of vacant or occupied hous- 17 ing accommodations; demolition or sealing of vacant structures where 18 necessary or appropriate; disposition of housing accommodations to pres- 19 ent or potential occupants or co-operative organizations; training or 20 other forms of assistance to occupants of housing accommodations; admin- 21 istration of landlord training classes; and management of housing accom- 22 modations as agent for the owners, receivers, administrators or munici- 23 palities; (b) activities, similar to those specified in paragraph (a) of 24 this subdivision, aimed at accomplishing similar purposes and meeting 25 similar needs with respect to retail and service establishments within a 26 region when carried out in connection with and incidental to a program 27 of housing related activities. 28 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
