New York A 27: Requires municipalities to include a housing needs assessment using the HUD median income calculations in their comprehensive plans

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A00027 Summary:

BILL NOA00027 

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SAME ASSAME AS S02083

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SPONSORBurdick

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COSPNSRLevenberg, Gonzalez-Rojas, Epstein

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §239-d, Gen Muni L; amd §28-a, add Art 3 Art Head, Gen City L; amd §272-a, Town L; amd §7-722, Vil L

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Requires municipalities to include an Affordable Housing Needs Assessment to establish a data-based foundation for the creation and preservation of affordable housing in the municipality, utilizing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development median income calculations, in their comprehensive plans.

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BILL NOA00027 

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01/08/2025referred to local governments

01/07/2026referred to local governments

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 27

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BURDICK, LEVENBERG, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, EPSTEIN --
 read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments

 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, the general city law, the
 town law and the village law, in relation to requiring municipalities
 to include a housing needs assessment using the HUD median income
 calculations in their comprehensive plans; and to amend the general
 city law, in relation to making a technical correction

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraphs (o) and (p) of subdivision 1 of section 239-d of
 2 the general municipal law, as added by chapter 451 of the laws of 1997,
 3 are amended and a new paragraph (q) is added to read as follows:
 4 (o) Any and all other items which are consistent with the protection,
 5 enhancement, orderly growth and development of the county; [and]
 6 (p) Consideration of cumulative impacts of development, and other
 7 issues which promote compliance with the state environmental quality
 8 review act under article eight of the environmental conservation law and
 9 its implementing regulations[.]; and
 10 (q) A housing needs assessment to establish a data-based foundation
 11 for the creation and preservation of housing in the county, utilizing
 12 the U.S. department of housing and urban development median income
 13 calculations. Such assessment must address housing needs within five
 14 levels as follows: (i) at or below thirty percent of the county's AMI
 15 (area median income); (ii) between thirty-one percent and fifty percent
 16 of the county's AMI; (iii) between fifty-one percent and sixty percent
 17 of the county's AMI; (iv) between sixty-one percent and eighty percent
 18 of the county's AMI; and (v) between eighty-one percent and one hundred
 19 percent of the county's AMI.
 20 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 28-a of the general city law is amended
 21 by adding a new paragraph (p) to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00025-01-5

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 1 (p) A housing needs assessment to establish a data-based foundation
 2 for the creation and preservation of housing in the city, utilizing the
 3 U.S. department of housing and urban development median income calcu-
 4 lations. Such assessment must address affordable housing needs within
 5 five levels as follows: (i) at or below thirty percent of the city's AMI
 6 (area median income); (ii) between thirty-one percent and fifty percent
 7 of the city's AMI; (iii) between fifty-one percent and sixty percent of
 8 the city's AMI; (iv) between sixty-one percent and eighty percent of the
 9 city's AMI; and (v) between eighty-one percent and one hundred percent
 10 of the city's AMI.
 11 § 3. Subdivision 3 of section 272-a of the town law is amended by
 12 adding a new paragraph (p) to read as follows:
 13 (p) A housing needs assessment to establish a data-based foundation
 14 for the creation and preservation of housing in the town, utilizing the
 15 U.S. department of housing and urban development median income calcu-
 16 lations. Such assessment must address housing needs within five levels
 17 of afford