Vote: Committee vote · Cities 1
Senate Cities 1Mar 11, 2025Result: passed
(5) (2) (0) (0)
Senate bill · S3199 (2025-26)
Relates to requiring property owners to dedicate certain residential units to rent regulated status following demolition and new construction or substantial…
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Relates to requiring property owners to dedicate certain residential units to rent regulated status following demolition and new construction or substantial renovation
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Latest action Mar 11, 2025
Summary
Requires property owners to dedicate certain residential units to rent regulated status following demolition and new construction or substantial renovation.
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Where it stands
Out of committee and scheduled for a vote by the full chamber.
- Introduced
- In committee
- Up for a vote
- Passed one chamber
- Passed
- Enacted
New York State Senate
Same as A6297, the matching bill in the Assembly.
Committee
Housing, Construction And Community Development · New York State Senate
Purpose, from the sponsor's memo
Section 1 amends Section 26-512 of the administrative code of the city of New York by adding a subdivision h that provides if a property holder practices demolition or extensive regulation that renders uninhabitable a rent controlled or rent stabilized housing accommodation protected by the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, the emer- gency housing rent control law, the local emergency housing rent control act, the administrative code of the city of New York, or any regu- lations, rules, and policies enacted pursuant thereto, the property holder must dedicate another unit of equivalent size to the same status the unit previously held if some conditions are present. Section 2 amends Section 6 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974 constituting the emergency tenant protection act by adding a new subdivision h that provides if a property holder practices demolition or extensive regulation that renders uninhabitable a rent controlled or rent stabilized housing accommodation protected by the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, the emergency housing rent control law, the local emergency housing rent control act, the adminis- trative code of the city of New York, or any regulations, rules, and policies enacted pursuant thereto, then the property holder must dedi- cate another unit of equivalent size to the same status the unit previ- ously held if some conditions are present. Section 3 amends Section 5 of chapter 274 of the laws of 1946 constitut- ing the emergency housing rent control law by adding a new subdivision 9 that provides if a property holder practices demolition or extensive regulation that renders uninhabitable a rent controlled or rent stabi- lized housing accommodation protected by the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, the emergency housing rent control law, the local emergency housing rent control act, the administrative code of the city of New York, or any regulations, rules, and policies enacted pursuant thereto, then the property holder must dedicate another unit of equivalent size to the same status the unit previously held if some conditions are present. Section 4 establishes that this law shall take effect immediately.
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Recorded votes
Vote: Committee vote · Housing, Construction And Community Development
Senate Housing, Construction And Community DevelopmentFeb 3, 2025Result: passed
(8) (3) (0) (0)
Cosponsors
The sponsor's argument
Why the sponsor says this is needed
Unscrupulous landlords try to turn a profit on properties by displacing rent-regulated tenants through the use of major construction as a harassment technique and subsequently raising rent prices. These tenants tend to be disproportionately of very low to moderate income. It was revealed that former White House senior advisor Jared Kushner's real estate company pushed vulnerable tenants out of buildings by utilizing late night construction, sawdust, and rat infestations between 2013 and 2016 in order to turn rent regulated units into ones that could be sold for market value. Sadly, this is a widespread practice that severely limits the ever-di- minishing amount of affordable housing in New York. For far too many New Yorkers there are tales of lead dust in the air, incessant jackhammer- ing, loss of power and heat and gas shutoffs in the winter that under- mine quality of life to such a degree that tenants feel they have no option but to leave apartments they have long called home. Under this bill, whenever a rent-regulated apartment is rendered uninha- bitable in the manner described, the landlord must supply another rent- regulated unit, thereby removing any ability to turn a profit through such practices and therefore stopping tenants from living in adverse conditions and protecting communities from unethical, abusive landlords.
This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.
Full history
- Mar 11, 2025
Reported out of committee
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
NY Senate
- Feb 3, 2025
Reported out of committee
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO CITIES 1
NY Senate
- Jan 24, 2025
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
NY Senate
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