What's happening
This bill requires the Division of Housing and Community Renewal to publish annual audit results of major capital improvement rent increase applications on its website.
Why it matters
Increased transparency for tenants and the public. By mandating the Division of Housing and Community Renewal to publish annual audit results of major capital improvement (MCI) rent increase applications online, tenants and advocacy groups gain easy access to information that can reveal patterns of compliance or abuse by landlords.
Enhanced accountability for landlords. Publicly available audit results put pressure on property owners to ensure that MCIs are completed as described and that all legal requirements are met before rent increases are approved, potentially reducing fraudulent or exaggerated claims.
Oversight of rent regulation enforcement. The publication of audit outcomes gives policymakers, watchdogs, and researchers new tools to assess the effectiveness of rent regulation enforcement and to identify trends, systemic issues, or gaps in the existing process.
Empowerment for renters facing MCIs. Tenants facing or contesting MCI-related rent hikes will have more concrete data to support their cases or advocacy, which could lead to fairer outcomes in disputes and a better-informed tenant community.
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- Referred to housing, construction and community development
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.228
- Reported
- Referred to housing
- Reported referred to rules
- Referred to housing
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Publish Audit Results Online
In Senate Committee · Housing, Construction And Community Development · Sponsor Brian Kavanagh
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STATE OF NEW YORK
795
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four and the emergency housing rent control law, in relation to requiring the division of housing and community renewal to publish the results of annual audits of approved applications for temporary major capital improvement increases on its website annually
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision b of section 26-405.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by section 5 of part K of chapter 36 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
b. The division shall establish an annual inspection and audit process which shall review twenty-five percent of applications for a temporary major capital improvement increase that have been submitted and approved. Such process shall include individual inspections and document review to ensure that owners complied with all obligations and responsibilities under the law for temporary major capital improvement increases. Inspections shall include in-person confirmation that such improvements have been completed in such way as described in the application. The division shall conspicuously make available on its website the results of every annual audit conducted pursuant to this subdivision and shall publish new audit results on its website annually.
§ 2. Subdivision b of section 26-511.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by section 4 of part K of chapter 36 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
b. The division shall establish an annual inspection and audit process which shall review twenty-five percent of applications for a temporary major capital improvement increase that have been submitted and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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approved. Such process shall include individual inspections and document review to ensure that owners complied with all obligations and responsibilities under the law for temporary major capital improvement increases. Inspections shall include in-person confirmation that such improvements have been completed in such way as described in the application. The division shall conspicuously make available on its website the results of every annual audit conducted pursuant to this subdivision and shall publish new audit results on its website annually.
§ 3. Subdivision (b) of section 10-b of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, as added by section 6 of part K of chapter 36 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
(b) The division shall establish an annual inspection and audit process which shall review twenty-five percent of applications for a temporary major capital improvement increase that have been submitted and approved. Such process shall include individual inspections and document review to ensure that owners complied with all obligations and responsibilities under the law for temporary major capital improvement increases. Inspections shall include in-person confirmation that such improvements have been completed in such way as described in the application. The division shall conspicuously make available on its website the results of every annual audit conducted pursuant to this subdivision and shall publish new audit results on its website annually.
§ 4. Subdivision 2 of section 8-a of chapter 274 of the laws of 1946, constituting the emergency housing rent control law, as added by section 7 of part K of chapter 36 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
2. The division shall establish an annual inspection and audit process which shall review twenty-five percent of applications for a temporary major capital improvement increase that have been submitted and approved. Such process shall include individual inspections and document review to ensure that owners complied with all obligations and responsibilities under the law for temporary major capital improvement increases. Inspections shall include in-person confirmation that such improvements have been completed in such way as described in the application. The division shall conspicuously make available on its website the results of every annual audit conducted pursuant to this subdivision and shall publish new audit results on its website annually.
§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amendments to section 26-405.1 of the city rent and rehabilitation law made by section one 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 provided that the amendments to section 26-511.1 of chapter 4 of title 26 of the administrative code of the city of New York made by section two 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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