Bill Text: NY A10576 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-03 - referred to housing [A10576 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10576-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10576

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 3, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cymbrowitz)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing

        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
    22  agreement with the division of housing and community renewal or  another
    23  state,  federal or local housing agency; the preservation and/or capital
    24  improvement of Mitchell-Lama properties; the promotion of home ownership
    25  among families of  low-  and  moderate-income;  and  the  repair  and/or
    26  replacement  of  mobile  and manufactured homes. Such plan shall, to the
    27  greatest extent possible: provide  for  both  rental  and  homeownership
    28  opportunities  affordable  to low- and moderate-income households across

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16399-02-0

        A. 10576                            2

     1  the state; address areas and populations with critical affordable  hous-
     2  ing  needs;  and  advance  the  specific  housing priorities of New York
     3  state.
     4    3.  On  or  before  September first, two thousand twenty-two and on or
     5  before September first annually  thereafter,  and  on  or  before  March
     6  first,  two  thousand twenty-three and on or before March first annually
     7  thereafter, the governor shall, as part of the  statewide  comprehensive
     8  five-year  capital  plan  to  support  the development, preservation and
     9  capital improvement of affordable housing in  New  York  state  required
    10  pursuant to subdivision one of this section and in consultation with the
    11  commissioner  of housing and community renewal, submit and make publicly
    12  available to the legislature and on the division's  website  information
    13  summarizing  the  activities  undertaken  pursuant  to  the funding made
    14  available in the enacted affordable housing capital plan. Such  informa-
    15  tion  shall  be  cumulative  and  shall include an itemized list of each
    16  project utilizing funds appropriated by the affordable  housing  capital
    17  plan  subsequent to the enactment of the capital plan, including a brief
    18  description of the project, street address, county, awardee, total budg-
    19  et, amount of capital subsidy appropriated  by  the  affordable  housing
    20  capital  plan,  relevant section of the affordable housing capital plan,
    21  bonded or cash, amount of each additional public funding source, funding
    22  program, number of units, area median income requirements if applicable,
    23  month and year construction will commence, projected date of  occupancy,
    24  and  project phase (in development, engineering, construction, complete,
    25  defunded).
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    27  law.
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