What's happening
This bill allows not-for-profits to provide certain housing to homeless or at-risk individuals under rent stabilization laws.
Why it matters
Expands rent stabilization protections. to formerly excluded housing run by not-for-profits, specifically when they provide permanent or temporary housing to homeless or at-risk individuals, meaning these tenants will have stronger rights and more stable rent.
Ensures continuity in rent levels. When a tenant leaves such housing, the next tenant cannot be charged more than what the previous tenant paid, except for standard increases set by local rent guidelines boards, helping to prevent sudden rent hikes for vulnerable populations.
Clarifies tenant status for program participants. Individuals placed in these units by not-for-profits are explicitly defined as tenants, granting them the same legal protections as other rent-stabilized tenants (like eviction protections and lease rights).
Excludes current leases from sudden changes. Existing leases at the time the law takes effect remain unaffected, providing stability and predictability for both organizations and current residents.
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Expand Homeless Housing Protections
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Sponsors
9 Co-sponsors
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Amended on third reading 8263a
- Ordered to third reading cal.598
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.270
- Rules report cal.270
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Reported referred to codes
- Referred to housing
Companion bill
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Protect Nonprofit Homeless Housing
In Senate Committee · Housing, Construction And Community Development · Sponsor Martin J. Golden
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
8263--A Cal. No. 598
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 2, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. CYMBROWITZ, HARRIS, SEPULVEDA, BARRON, ARROYO, SIMON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing -- ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, in relation to not-for-profits' use of certain residential dwellings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraphs 10 and 11 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, paragraph 11 as amended by chapter 422 of the laws of 2010, are amended to read as follows:
(10) housing accommodations in buildings operated exclusively for charitable purposes on a non-profit basis except for permanent or temporary housing accommodations provided, as of and after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand eighteen that amended this paragraph, to individuals who are or were homeless or at risk of homelessness; provided, however, that terms of leases in existence as of the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand eighteen that amended this paragraph, shall not be affected, and further provided that upon the vacancy of such housing accommodations, the legal regulated rent for such housing accommodations shall be the legal regulated rent paid for such housing accommodation by the prior tenant, subject only to any adjustment adopted by the applicable rent guidelines board;
(11) housing accommodations which are not occupied by the tenant, not including subtenants or occupants, as his or her primary residence, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction. For the purposes of determining primary residency, a tenant who is a victim of domestic violence, as defined in section four hundred fifty-nine-a of the social
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services law, who has left the unit because of such violence, and who asserts an intent to return to the housing accommodation shall be deemed to be occupying the unit as his or her primary residence. For the purposes of this paragraph, where a housing accommodation is rented to a not-for-profit hospital for residential use, affiliated subtenants authorized to use such accommodations by such hospital shall be deemed to be tenants. For the purposes of this paragraph, where a housing accommodation is rented to a not-for-profit for providing, as of and after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand eighteen that amended this paragraph, permanent or temporary housing to individuals who are or were homeless or at risk of homelessness, affiliated subtenants authorized to use such accommodations by such not-forprofit shall be deemed to be tenants. No action or proceeding shall be commenced seeking to recover possession on the ground that a housing accommodation is not occupied by the tenant as his or her primary residence unless the owner or lessor shall have given thirty days notice to the tenant of his or her intention to commence such action or proceeding on such grounds.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that the amendments to paragraphs 10 and 11 of subdivision a of section 5 of the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four made by section one 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, as amended.
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