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BILL S26-2013: Provides for court-ordered rent abatement where the landlord fails to make repairs
Permits court to order rent abatement in proceedings or actions to recover rent where the court finds conditions exist to constructively evict the tenant; rent may be abated for each day such condition exists; if court finds a condition which reduces habitability it may reduce rent owed by an amount between 10 and 50 percent of any amount owed.
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S28-2013: Provides that a two-thirds majority of all outstanding shares is necessary to dissolve a mutual limited profit housing company
Provides that a two-thirds majority of all outstanding shares is necessary to dissolve a mutual limited profit housing company; disallows proxy voting except for illness or disability.
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S54-2013: Relates to voting rights in cooperative apartments
Provides that the sponsor of a cooperative apartment building or condominium units may not continue to sit on the board or to vote after the transfer to the cooperative corporation or condominium ownership.
Sponsor: PERALTA
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S59-2013: Increases civil penalties for violations of building maintenance standards within the city of New York
Increases civil penalties for violations of state and local laws which pertain to building maintenance and operation within the city of New York.
Sponsor: PERALTA
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S86-2013: Requires landlord to grant access to engineer or architect hired by tenants to inspect major capital improvements in certain multiple dwellings
Provides that no landlord shall deny access to a licensed professional engineer or licensed registered architect hired by any tenant or tenant association representing tenants of a multiple dwelling of six units or more for the purpose of conducting an inspection of a major capital improvement for which an application for a maximum rent adjustment has been filed by the landlord; provides that such inspection shall be conducted after notice to the landlord and during normal business hours; provides for the filing of such inspection report by such tenants with the New York city rent agency for consideration in such application's determination.
Sponsor: PARKER
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S113-2013: Establishes time restrictions for court issued consent orders for work performance to remove or remedy conditions in such petition
Establishes time restrictions for court issued consent orders for work performance to remove or remedy dangerous conditions or building code violations; permits sixty days for consent orders to be performed by an owner, mortgagee, or lienor of record and further restricts such person from using consent orders more than once.
Sponsor: PERALTA
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S123-2013: Increases the membership of the New York City Housing Authority
Increases the membership of the New York City Housing Authority by adding 2 additional members; provides members shall serve at the pleasure of the mayor of the city of New York and the tenant members shall serve for terms of 3 years.
Sponsor: PERALTA
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S124-2013: Directs the New York City Housing Authority to establish alternative requirements for domestic violence victim applications for N-1 priority in housing
Enacts the "survivor's accessing fair and equitable (SAFE) housing act"; directs the New York City Housing Authority to establish alternative requirements for domestic violence victim applications for N-1 priority in housing.
Sponsor: PERALTA
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S137-2013: Relates to limited-profit housing companies
Relates to limited-profit housing companies; authorizes certain companies to pay dividends or interest in excess of six percent per annum; relates to the dissolution of certain rental housing companies.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S172-2013: Requires notice to the local housing agency when construction is halted on a project for which an application for a certain tax exemption has been made
Requires notification to be given to the New York City Department of Housing Preservation in the event that construction on a project for which an application for a certain tax exemption has been made ceases for a period exceeding one hundred twenty days.
Sponsor: SQUADRON
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S197-2013: Relates to recovery of certain housing accommodations by a landlord
Relates to recovery of certain housing accommodations by a landlord; limits a landlord's ability to take possession of units for their own primary residence, permit recovery of only one unit, and restrict such ability if the tenant has occupied the apartment for twenty or more years.
Sponsor: SQUADRON
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S207-2013: Requires limited profit housing company to show maintenance of essential services before approval of rent increases
Defines, for purposes of the Mitchell-Lama housing projects, "essential services" which landlord in limited-profit housing companies are obligated to provide and requires that any authorized maximum average monthly rental increase shall be conditioned on the continued maintenance of such defined services.
Sponsor: SQUADRON
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S208-2013: Relates to the appointment and qualifications of members of rent boards
Relates to the appointment and qualifications of members of rent boards.
Sponsor: SQUADRON
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S208A-2013: Relates to the appointment and qualifications of members of rent boards
Relates to the appointment and qualifications of members of rent boards.
Sponsor: SQUADRON
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S234-2013: Requires publication of the New York City housing and vacancy survey and rent reduction schedules every three years
Allows owners of buildings which are master metered for electricity and have rent inclusion of electricity to file applications to terminate the rent inclusion of electricity for such accommodations.
Sponsor: SQUADRON
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S298-2013: Provides for an extension of time to the purchasing period for tenants to purchase a dwelling unit in a cooperative apartment building
Provides for an extension of time to the purchasing period for tenants to purchase a dwelling unit in a cooperative apartment building.
Sponsor: DIAZ
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S298A-2013: Provides for an extension of time to the purchasing period for tenants to purchase a dwelling unit in a cooperative apartment building
Provides for an extension of time to the purchasing period for tenants to purchase a dwelling unit in a cooperative apartment building.
Sponsor: DIAZ
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S315-2013: Requires lenders, assignees and mortgage loan servicers to submit an affidavit to the court prior to commencing foreclosure proceedings
Requires lenders, assignees and mortgage loan servicers to submit an affidavit to the court at least thirty days before commencing foreclosure proceedings.
Sponsor: DIAZ
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S348-2013: Provides that the judgment of sale in a mortgage foreclosure action shall direct that payment by the purchaser be made by means of a bank officer's check
Provides that the judgment of sale in a mortgage foreclosure action shall direct that payment by the purchaser be made by means of a bank or credit union officer's check or certified check.
Sponsor: LAVALLE
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S468-2013: Relates to appointments to the rent guidelines board
Requires the city council to approve the mayor's appointments to the rent guidelines board.
Sponsor: STAVISKY
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT