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S00136 Summary:

BILL NOS00136 

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SAME ASSAME AS A02134

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SPONSORCLEARE

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COSPNSRBORRELLO, COMRIE, GONZALEZ, JACKSON, KRUEGER, MAY, MYRIE, SALAZAR, SERRANO

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MLTSPNSR

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Establishes a five-year window for any entity participating in the New York state supportive housing program (NYSSHP) in good standing with such program to participate in a request for proposal to increase their contract rates up to ESSHI levels.

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BILL NOS00136 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 136

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services

 AN ACT in relation to enacting the supportive housing modernization act

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "supportive housing modernization act".
 3 § 2. Legislative intent. Supportive housing is an exponentially impor-
 4 tant social service that has evolved over the past four decades. At the
 5 heart of any supportive housing program, the core is the same: helping
 6 people at risk of and experiencing homelessness and other related chal-
 7 lenges through the provision of social services within housing, connect-
 8 ing residents with essential community-based services such as mental
 9 health counseling, substance use treatment, and job training.
 10 In 1987, a program called New York State Supportive Housing Program
 11 (NYSSHP) was created. It currently exists under the New York State
 12 Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) and it is the quin-
 13 tessential example of early supportive housing interventions that demon-
 14 strated success as a cost-effective solution to homelessness and a model
 15 for preserving existing affordable housing stock. As a result, New York
 16 state developed a succession of new and better-funded supportive housing
 17 programs to more comprehensively meet tenants' needs, paying for both
 18 services and rental assistance/operating costs. However, NYSSHP has
 19 continued all these years without any significant change or modification
 20 to the underlying funding formula -- $2,964 per year for individuals,
 21 $3,900 for families. Currently, NYSSHP partially funds services in more
 22 than 20,000 supportive units and is the sole source of service funding
 23 in approximately 9,000 of those units but the payment structure is
 24 creating deficits from the service providers.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00207-01-5

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 1 On the other hand, the Empire State Supportive Housing Initiative
 2 (ESSHI) was created in 2016. ESSHI is an interagency program solicita-
 3 tion administered by the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH)
 4 that provides supportive service and operating funds to sustain newly
 5 developed permanent supportive housing units. ESSHI funds both services
 6 and operating costs at $25,000 per unit and expanded to ten explicit
 7 population categories, including frail elderly, survivors of domestic
 8 violence and veterans.
 9 Conclusively, both NYSSHP and ESSHI serve the same populations through
 10 the provision of the same supportive housing model. However, only ESSHI
 11 allows the providers to recoup the necessary cost of providing both
 12 excellent housing and a full complement of wrap-around social services.
 13 In the last twenty years, one-third of NYSSHP providers have either had
 14 to merge with another agency, close their doors, or stop providing
 15 supportive housing services altogether. Without the option to modernize
 16 contracts at ESSHI rates, supportive housing units will be lost.
 17 Therefore, this legislation does the only rational thing: allowing all
 18 NYSSHP providers the option to modernize their co