What's happening
This bill extends tenant protections to individuals aged 62 or older living in certain nonprofit or institution-owned housing in New York.
Why it matters
Expands rent regulation and eviction protections to older adults (62+). living in nonprofit, hospital, religious, or charitable institution-owned housing—meaning these tenants can no longer be excluded from tenant protections simply based on the type of institution owning their building.
Reduces housing insecurity risk for seniors. who are not affiliated with the institution (e.g., not employees, students, or religious members), making it harder for these entities to remove or evict elderly tenants or raise rents beyond regulated limits.
Closes loopholes that previously denied protections. to older tenants in nonprofit and institutional housing, potentially impacting a vulnerable group at risk of displacement, especially in high-rent or gentrifying neighborhoods.
Signals a shift in policy recognizing the unique needs and vulnerabilities of elderly tenants. , possibly encouraging similar legislative efforts to address housing stability for seniors in other non-traditional or institutionally owned housing contexts.
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Protect Senior Tenant Rights
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Protect Housing for Seniors
In Senate Committee · Housing, Construction And Community Development · Sponsor Liz Krueger
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5064
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 6, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to certain housing accommodations by tenants over sixty-two years of age
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph 6 of subdivision a of section 5 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, as amended by chapter 403 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
(6) housing accommodations owned or operated by a hospital, convent, monastery, asylum, public institution, or college or school dormitory or any institution operated exclusively for charitable or educational purposes on a non-profit basis other than those accommodations occupied by a tenant on the date such housing accommodation is acquired by any such institution, [or] which are occupied subsequently by a tenant who is not affiliated with such institution at the time of his initial occupancy, or where the housing accommodations are occupied by a non-affiliated tenant who is sixty-two years of age or older;
§ 2. Paragraph 10 of subdivision a of section 5 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, is amended to read as follows:
(10) housing accommodations in buildings operated exclusively for charitable purposes on a non-profit basis, unless such housing accommodations are occupied by a tenant who is sixty-two years of age or older;
§ 3. Subparagraph (b) of paragraph 2 of subdivision e of section 26-403 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
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(b) a hospital, convent, monastery, asylum, public institution, or college or school dormitory or any institution operated exclusively for charitable or educational purposes on a non-profit basis, unless such housing accommodations are occupied by a non-affiliated tenant who is sixty-two years of age or older; or
§ 4. Subparagraph (g) of paragraph 2 of subdivision e of section 26-403 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
(g) Housing accommodations in buildings operated exclusively for charitable purposes on a non-profit basis, unless such housing accommodations are occupied by a tenant who is sixty-two years of age or older; or
§ 5. The opening paragraph of subparagraph c of paragraph 9 of subdivision c of section 26-511 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
where the housing accommodation is owned by a hospital, convent, monastery, asylum, public institution, college, school dormitory or any institution operated exclusively for charitable or educational purposes on a non-profit basis, unless such housing accommodation is occupied by a tenant who is sixty-two years of age or older, and either:
§ 6. Severability. If any provision of this act, or any application of any provision of this act, is held to be invalid, that shall not affect the validity or effectiveness of any other provision of this act, any other application of any provision of this act, or any other provision of any law or code amended by this act.
§ 7. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law; provided that:
(a) the amendments to subdivision a of section 5 of the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four made by sections one and two of this act shall expire on the same date as such act expires and shall not affect the expiration of such act as provided in section 17 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974;
(b) the amendments to section 26-403 of the city rent and rehabilitation law made by sections three and four of this act shall remain in full force and effect only as long as the public emergency requiring the regulation and control of residential rents and evictions continues, as provided in subdivision 3 of section 1 of the local emergency housing rent control act; and
(c) the amendments to subparagraph c of paragraph 9 of subdivision c of section 26-511 of chapter 4 of title 26 of the administrative code of the city of New York made by section five of this act shall expire on the same date as such law expires and shall not affect the expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law.
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