New York A 3996: Establishes a jobs and housing pilot program to create jobs in the construction industry and address the housing crisis

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A03996 Summary:

BILL NOA03996A

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SAME ASSAME AS S02523-A

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SPONSORBronson

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COSPNSRBerger, Dinowitz, Pheffer Amato, Tapia, Taylor, Simone, Santabarbara, Colton, Shrestha, Lunsford,
 Burdick, Steck, Clark, Brabenec, Reyes, Shimsky, Ramos, Bichotte Hermelyn, Kay, Raga, Rozic,
 Carroll R, Zinerman, Rajkumar, Weprin, Wright, Gonzalez-Rojas, Dilan, Burroughs, Lee, Rosenthal,
 Moreno, Levenberg

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 31-A §§1283 - 1286, Priv Hous Fin L

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Establishes the "jobs and housing act"; directs the private housing finance agency to develop and administer a jobs and housing pilot program to construct and preserve housing, including workforce housing, that is affordable to low and moderate income persons, and creates jobs for those who build and work in such housing.

Go to top A03996 Actions:

BILL NOA03996A

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01/30/2025referred to housing

01/07/2026referred to housing

05/15/2026amend and recommit to housing

05/15/2026print number 3996a

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3996--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 30, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON, BERGER, DINOWITZ, PHEFFER AMATO, TAPIA,
 TAYLOR, SIMONE, SANTABARBARA, COLTON, SHRESTHA, LUNSFORD, BURDICK,
 STECK, CLARK, BRABENEC, REYES, SHIMSKY, RAMOS, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, KAY,
 RAGA, ROZIC, R. CARROLL, ZINERMAN, RAJKUMAR, WEPRIN, WRIGHT, GONZA-
 LEZ-ROJAS, DILAN, BURROUGHS, LEE, ROSENTHAL, MORENO -- read once and
 referred to the Committee on Housing -- recommitted to the Committee
 on Housing in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
 discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
 to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to estab-
 lishing a jobs and housing pilot program to create jobs in the
 construction industry and address the housing crisis

 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 "jobs and housing act".
 3 § 2. Legislative intent. 1. The legislature finds and declares that
 4 New York state is in the midst of a jobs and housing crisis. More than
 5 half of renters statewide are rent-burdened, spending more than 30% of
 6 their income on rent. Over 60,000 New Yorkers are homeless. Home owner-
 7 ship has slipped out of reach for an entire generation, cracking the
 8 foundation of the American Dream and threatening to deepen the racial
 9 wealth gap. The backbone of New York state's existing supply of afforda-
 10 ble housing is in jeopardy; new unfunded renewable energy mandates
 11 threaten to impose extraordinary capital costs on Mitchell-Lama and
 12 similar limited equity cooperatives built by labor unions that will push
 13 them out of affordability.
 14 2. The housing crisis has also become a labor crisis due to shortages
 15 of workforce housing. Over 500,000 people left New York state in 2022,
 16 driven out of the state by high housing costs. Working families and
 17 talented professionals are leaving New York in search of a path to

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05639-04-6

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 1 homeownership, or at least housing they can afford. In New York city,
 2 civil service positions that require residency, once highly sought-after
 3 as a ticket to middle-class stability, have now become harder to fill.
 4 New York state must dramatically expand its supply of affordable housing
 5 to remain competitive in the global economy.
 6 3. The housing crisis is exacerbating a crisis of good jobs, which in
 7 turn exacerbates the housing crisis. Median real household income has
 8 declined by 7.2% in New York state since 2019. Workers are squeezed by
 9 skyrocketing housing costs on the one hand, and stagnant real wages on
 10 the other. Historically, union careers in the construction industry have
 11 been a pathway to the middle class for thousands of New Yorkers, partic-
 12 ularly immigrant workers, worke