2025-2026 session: change session
Housing bills
Bills on rent regulation, tenant protections, housing construction, homeownership programs and property taxation. They go through the Senate Housing, Construction and Community Development Committee and the Assembly Housing and Real Property Taxation Committees.
Highest impact
Impact is how much a bill would change if enacted, from 1 (minimal) to 10 (transformational). Passage is our estimate of the chance it becomes law this session. How we score
Fund Green Upgrades, Affordable Housing
The Livable New York Act creates funds and programs to promote energy efficiency upgrades in housing, expand affordable housing, and ensure fair labor standards for incarcerated individuals.
Impact 9 · Transformational·28% to pass
Impact9/10TransformationalPassage28%- S10169Senate
Let Tenants Buy Their Homes
This bill creates a Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, giving tenants and nonprofits the first chance to buy rental buildings before third-party sales, with permanent affordability requirements.
Impact 9 · Transformational·24% to pass
Impact9/10TransformationalPassage24% - A6100Assembly
Let Tenants Buy Their Buildings
This bill creates a "Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act," giving tenants the first chance to buy their rental buildings before third parties.
Impact 9 · Transformational·22% to pass
Impact9/10TransformationalPassage22% - S6958Senate
Require Fair Housing Statewide
This bill enacts the New York Fair Housing Act, establishing mandatory affordable housing obligations, planning, oversight, and enforcement for municipalities statewide.
Impact 9 · Transformational·21% to pass
Impact9/10TransformationalPassage21% Allow Tenants To Form Unions
This bill creates statewide rights for tenants to form unions, requires landlords to negotiate with them, and establishes a statewide tenant association with $50 million in funding.
Impact 9 · Transformational·20% to pass
Impact9/10TransformationalPassage20%Protect Homeowners from Scams
This bill creates a statewide Homeowner Protection Program to provide free housing counseling and legal services to at-risk homeowners.
Impact 8 · Significant·48% to pass
Impact8/10SignificantPassage48%Protect Homeowners from Scams
This bill establishes the Homeowner Protection Program to provide free counseling and legal services to help New York homeowners prevent foreclosure, fraud, and loss of homeownership.
Impact 8 · Significant·45% to pass
Impact8/10SignificantPassage45%Update Multiple Dwelling Rules
This bill updates and modernizes New York’s multiple dwelling law by removing outdated provisions and aligning requirements with current New York City construction codes.
Impact 8 · Significant·44% to pass
Impact8/10SignificantPassage44%Regulate Landlord AI Screening
This bill requires landlords using automated tools to screen housing applicants to conduct annual bias audits, provide transparency, and notify applicants.
Impact 8 · Significant·44% to pass
Impact8/10SignificantPassage44%Regulate Short-Term Rentals
This bill amends laws governing short-term rental units in New York, shifting registration and regulation authority from the state to counties and clarifying tax collection, data reporting, and…
Impact 8 · Significant·Companion signed
Impact8/10SignificantOutcomeCompanion signed
Most likely to pass
Bills not yet signed or vetoed, by Passage score.
Ban False Info in Leases
This bill prohibits landlords from providing false or misleading rent decontrol notices and requires standardized tenant notifications for 421-a housing units.
Impact 7 · Significant·49% to pass
Impact7/10SignificantPassage49%Protect Homeowners from Scams
This bill creates a statewide Homeowner Protection Program to provide free housing counseling and legal services to at-risk homeowners.
Impact 8 · Significant·48% to pass
Impact8/10SignificantPassage48%Let Tenants Inspect Repairs
This bill allows tenants to hire licensed engineers or architects to inspect major capital improvements for which landlords seek rent increases, ensuring tenant oversight in the process.
Impact 7 · Significant·46% to pass
Impact7/10SignificantPassage46%Protect Homeowners from Scams
This bill establishes the Homeowner Protection Program to provide free counseling and legal services to help New York homeowners prevent foreclosure, fraud, and loss of homeownership.
Impact 8 · Significant·45% to pass
Impact8/10SignificantPassage45%Set Standards for Salvaged Lumber
This bill establishes standards and a grading program for the reuse of salvage lumber in construction to support climate goals.
Impact 7 · Significant·45% to pass
Impact7/10SignificantPassage45%- S9716Senate
Expand Family Member Definition
This bill updates the definition of "family member" in public housing law to be more inclusive of various family relationships.
Impact 7 · Significant·45% to pass
Impact7/10SignificantPassage45% Protect Home Garden Choices
The bill prohibits homeowners' associations from banning or unreasonably restricting low impact landscaping, such as pollinator or rain gardens, on private property.
Impact 6 · Moderate·45% to pass
Impact6/10ModeratePassage45%Train NYCHA Residents on Management
This bill requires the New York City Housing Authority to inform and train residents on forming and managing resident management corporations for public housing.
Impact 6 · Moderate·45% to pass
Impact6/10ModeratePassage45%
Recently signed or vetoed
Extend Tax Shift Limits
This bill extends the limits on property tax shifts between classes in Orangetown, Rockland County, through the 2026–2027 assessment roll.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
Impact3/10LowOutcomeSigned into lawCap City Property Tax Hikes
This bill lets New York City limit annual property tax base increases for any class to 5% in 2027.
Impact 6 · Moderate·Signed into law
Impact6/10ModerateOutcomeSigned into lawLimit Tax Shifts in Haverstraw
This bill limits annual property tax base proportion shifts between classes in the Town of Haverstraw, Rockland County, to 1% for 2026–2027.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
Impact4/10LowOutcomeSigned into lawTax Exemption for Tiegerman
This bill allows the Town of Babylon assessor to accept a late property tax exemption application from Tiegerman Community Services, Inc. for certain assessment years.
Impact 2 · Minimal·Signed into law
Impact2/10MinimalOutcomeSigned into lawRetroactive Tax Break for Firehouse
This bill allows Merrick Hook & Ladder Co. 1 to apply retroactively for real property tax exemption for the 2025-2026 period.
Impact 2 · Minimal·Signed into law
Impact2/10MinimalOutcomeSigned into lawChurch Seeks Tax Exemption
This bill allows the Power House Church to apply retroactively for a property tax exemption for specific parcels in Nassau County for the 2023 and 2024 assessment rolls.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
Impact3/10LowOutcomeSigned into lawTax Exemption for Chabad
This bill allows the Brookhaven assessor to accept a late property tax exemption application from Chabad at Stony Brook, Inc. for 2025.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
Impact3/10LowOutcomeSigned into lawRetroactive Tax Exemption for Synagogue
This bill allows Congregation Khal Mevakshei Hashem, Inc. to apply retroactively for a property tax exemption on its property in Nassau County.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
Impact3/10LowOutcomeSigned into law