What's happening
This bill extends tenant protections in certain nonprofit and institutional housing to seniors and people with disabilities.
Why it matters
Closes a major loophole for vulnerable tenants. Previously, seniors and people with disabilities living in nonprofit or institutional housing (like hospitals, religious institutions, or school dorms) could be excluded from tenant protections. This bill ensures they are covered, even if they are not affiliated with the institution.
Protects housing stability for at-risk populations. Seniors and people with disabilities are often at greater risk of housing insecurity and may face unique barriers to finding new accommodations. By extending tenant protections, the bill helps prevent sudden evictions or rent hikes for these groups.
Expands the reach of rent regulation and eviction protections. The bill brings more units under the umbrella of rent regulation and other tenant safeguards in nonprofit-owned or operated buildings, increasing the number of protected tenants in New York.
Aligns legal definitions and ensures consistency. By referencing the existing legal definition of disability, the bill ensures consistent application across state and city housing laws, making it easier for tenants and advocates to understand and assert their rights.
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Who cares
Tenants age 62 and older
The bill would limit institutional and nonprofit charitable housing exemptions from rent regulation for their homes, with non-affiliation required in some provisions.
Tenants with disabilities
The bill would extend rent-regulation protections in specified institutional and charitable housing to tenants whose disabilities meet the Executive Law definition, with non-affiliation required in some provisions.
Hospitals, colleges and nonprofit educational institutions
The bill would narrow their ability to claim rent-regulation exemptions or use the institutional-owner provision governing recovery of apartments occupied by older tenants or tenants with disabilities.
Nonprofit charitable housing operators
The bill would limit exemptions from rent regulation for accommodations occupied by older tenants or tenants with disabilities.
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Protect Older and Disabled Tenants
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History
- Referred to housing
- Referred to housing
Companion bill
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Protect Housing for Seniors, Disabled
In Senate Committee · Housing, Construction And Community Development · Sponsor Liz Krueger
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7702
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 16, 2019
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 or tenants with a disability
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 or by a non-affiliated tenant who suffers from a disability as defined in subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law;
§ 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 or by a non-affiliated tenant who suffers from a disability as defined
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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in subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law;
§ 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:
(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 by a non-affiliated tenant who suffers from a disability as defined in subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law; 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 a tenant who suffers from a disability as defined in subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law; 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 or a tenant who suffers from a disability as defined in subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law, 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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