A 794: Requires the New York city housing authority to establish and maintain a vacancy database.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 794 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 public housing law, in relation to requiring New York city housing authority to maintain a database of vacant residen- tial housing units The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 402 of the public housing law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 12 to read as follows: 3 12. a. The New York city housing authority shall establish and main- 4 tain a public database of all residential dwelling units that have been 5 vacant for at least one hundred eighty days. 6 b. Such database shall contain: 7 (i) the month and year when each unit was last vacated; 8 (ii) the projected date for the completion of any necessary repairs in 9 each such unit; and 10 (iii) a projected date for when each such unit will be available. 11 c. Such database shall be publicly available on the authority's 12 website and updated on a quarterly basis. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02570-01-5