Int 0607-2024
Requiring tenant relocation services to the same community district, a nearby community district, or the same borough.
IntroductionEnactedCommittee on Housing and Buildingsintroduced 2024-03-07Local Law 2025/106
Enacted as Local Law 2025/106.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 2024-03-07Passed: 2025-08-13Enacted: 2025-08-13
Summary
This bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to relocate tenants who lost their homes due to a fire or other emergency in the same or an immediately adjacent community district upon request. When no suitable accommodation is available in the same or immediately adjacent community district, the bill would require HPD to relocate such tenants to the nearest community district in the same borough, where possible.
Committee on Housing and Buildings — Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Department of Buildings and rent regulation.
How it compares
18% of similar bills passed
9 passed · 41 died
This bill: 494 days in committee
Similar bills: median 680 days · 285 days when passed
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Int 1633-2019
Requiring tenant relocation services to the same community district, nearby community district, or borough.
892dFiled
Int 1313-2018
Affordable housing for residents whose households were lost due to a fire.
1106dFiled
Int 2408-2021
Proof of residency required for relocation services.
99dFiled
Int 0608-2024
Requiring the department of housing preservation and development to increase tenant relocation services in the event of a vacate order.
664dFiled
Int 0786-2022
Tenant education and outreach on residential vacate orders due to damage caused by fires.
430dFiled
Int 0006-2024
Tenant education and outreach on residential vacate orders due to damage caused by fires.
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Sponsors (28)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2024-03-07 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2024-03-07 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2024-04-25 · Committee on Housing and Buildings
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2024-04-25 · Committee on Housing and Buildings
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2025-07-14 · Committee on Housing and Buildings
ActionAmendment Proposed by Comm
2025-07-14 · Committee on Housing and Buildings
ActionAmended by Committee
2025-07-14 · Committee on Housing and Buildings
AdvancedApproved by Committee
2025-07-14 · Committee on Housing and Buildings
AdvancedApproved by Council
2025-07-14 · City Council
ActionSent to Mayor by Council
2025-07-14 · City Council
ActionReturned Unsigned by Mayor
2025-08-12 · City Council
AdvancedCity Charter Rule Adopted
2025-08-13 · Administration
Votes (7)
Aye (7)
Shaun AbreuPierina Ana SanchezAlexa AvilésLincoln RestlerOswald J. FelizEric DinowitzCrystal Hudson
Heard at (5)
City Council · 2025-07-14 · 3:00 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Housing and Buildings · 2025-07-14 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Housing and Buildings · 2024-04-25 · 10:00 AM · Committee Room - City Hall
Committee on Housing and Buildings · 2024-04-23 · 10:00 AM · Council Chambers - City Hall
City Council · 2024-03-07 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (19)
- Summary of Int. No. 607-A
- Summary of Int. No. 607
- Int. No. 607
- March 7, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-7-24
- Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 7, 2024
- Committee Report 4/25/24
- Hearing Testimony 4/25/24
- Hearing Transcript 4/25/24
- Proposed Int. No. 607-A - 5/21/25
- Committee Report 7/14/25
- Hearing Transcript 7/14/25
- Committee Report - Stated Meeting
- July 14, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 7-14-25
- Int. No. 607-A (FINAL)
- Int. No. 607-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council
- Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor
- Local Law 106
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. The undesignated subparagraph of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 26-301 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 159 for the year 2019, is amended to read as follows:
Such services may be provided as such commissioner may deem necessary, useful or appropriate for the relocation of such tenants, including but not limited to the gathering and furnishing of information as to suitable vacant accommodations, the making of studies and surveys for the purpose of locating such accommodations and the provision of facilities for the registration of such accommodations with the department of housing preservation and development by owners, lessors and managing agents of real property and others. For any tenant applying for relocation services pursuant to subparagraph (v) of this paragraph, such services may also include the provision of temporary housing. Such commissioner shall not impose any deadline or limitation of time in which a tenant may apply for relocation services pursuant to subparagraph (v) of this paragraph. Upon a request from a tenant applying for relocation services pursuant to subparagraph (v) of this paragraph, such commissioner shall relocate such tenant to suitable vacant accommodations in the same community district, or an immediately adjacent community district, as the building from which such tenant was displaced. If, following such a request, suitable vacant accommodations are unavailable in such same or any immediately adjacent community district, such commissioner shall relocate such tenant to suitable vacant accommodations in the nearest community district in the same borough, where possible. For purposes of this chapter, "temporary housing" includes, but is not limited to, hotels, motels, or other temporary shelter provided to a tenant by or on behalf of the department or provided pursuant to an agreement with the department.
� 2. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.
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