STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. NORRIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Housing

        AN  ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to direct-
          ing the housing trust fund corporation to administer a New York  small
          cities community development program

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

     1    Section 1. Section 45-a of the private housing finance law is  amended
     2  by adding a new subdivision 11-a to read as follows:
     3    11-a.  The  corporation  shall  create and administer a New York small
     4  cities community development program to encourage the rehabilitation and
     5  repair of local housing in cities,  as  accounted  in  the  most  recent
     6  United  States  census, with a population less than one hundred thousand
     7  for the physical improvement and revitalization of single and two family
     8  homes including, but not limited  to,  the  replacement  or  significant
     9  repair of roofs, sidings, exterior doors, windows, foundations, gutters,
    10  porches,  driveways,  detached garages, and other improvements necessary
    11  to correct any building code violations. The program  shall  follow  the
    12  regulations  as  defined for the federal small cities community develop-
    13  ment block grant by the federal Housing and Community Development Act of
    14  1974. This program shall be subject to appropriation by the state.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2024.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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