New York A 6432: Relates to protecting the rights of Mitchell-Lama residents

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A06432 Summary:

BILL NOA06432 

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SAME ASSAME AS S04236

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SPONSORWalker

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COSPNSRDe Los Santos, Lucas, Simon, Taylor, Forrest

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Relates to protecting the rights of current and converted Mitchell-Lama residents.

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BILL NOA06432 

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03/04/2025referred to housing

01/07/2026referred to housing

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6432

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. WALKER, DE LOS SANTOS, LUCAS, SIMON, TAYLOR,
 FORREST -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing

 AN ACT in relation to protecting the rights of current and converted
 Mitchell-Lama residents

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

 1 Section 1. Protecting the rights of current and converted Mitchell-
 2 Lama residents. 1. New York State Homes and Community Renewal, in
 3 consultation with the New York City Department of Housing Preservation,
 4 shall appoint an independent agency or office, which will solicit resi-
 5 dent complaints and will provide unbiased grievance and complaint proce-
 6 dures that are consistent with the administrative procedures act. The
 7 independent agency or office will handle all Mitchell-Lama complaints
 8 including, but not limited to, the following:
 9 a. owner/management company/co-op board harassment and abuse;
 10 b. enjoying the benefit of unnecessarily and financially unsupported
 11 rent/carrying charge increases;
 12 c. failure to adequately reconcile tenant rent/carrying charge
 13 records;
 14 d. failure to provide essential services on a consistent basis;
 15 e. failure to provide a decent, sanitary and safe living environment;
 16 f. failure to hold open and transparent co-op board elections;
 17 g. failure to notify and include all residents of building/development
 18 conversions; and
 19 h. failure to lower rents/carrying charges for eligible residents,
 20 when a subsidy program that is already in development will lower that
 21 resident's rent/carrying charges.
 22 2. The practice of approving refinancing and/or conversion "windfall"
 23 deals shall be eliminated unless the ownership, managing agents, co-ops
 24 boards, the New York city supervised Mitchell-Lama developments (HPD)
 25 and the New York state supervised Mitchell-Lama developments (DHCR) can

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05474-01-5

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 1 produce verified financial documentation from the comptroller which
 2 accounts for every dollar spent during the ten year period prior to the
 3 application for refinancing and/or conversion.
 4 3. All rent and carrying charge increases approved by HPD and DHCR
 5 shall receive final approval from the respective New York city or New
 6 York state comptroller and such respective comptroller shall have certi-
 7 fied that the increase is financially necessary and supported by a comp-
 8 troller-verified financial review of expenses, assets and income.
 9 4. Unless the comptroller with the jurisdiction officially agrees to
 10 monitor and confirm the validity and accuracy of future expenses or
 11 losses, owners and co-op boards shall not be permitted to continue to
 12 receive rent/carrying charge increases based on those projections.
 13 5. Unless a resident's household income confirms that such resident is
 14 subject to a surcharge, there shall be no audit surcharges.
 15 6. Legal representation and adequate pro se litigant support shall be
 16 provided by the state of New York for litigants in landlord/tenant
 17 cases.
 18 7. A comprehensive help desk shall be provided by the supreme courts
 19 of the state of New York to support pro se litigants.
 20 8. Judges and court staff with knowledge and experience with the Mitc-
 21 hell-Lama law and regulations shall oversee all Mitchell-Lama related
 22 cases.
 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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