Assembly Bill A8132

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Creates the "Peconic Bay Region Housing Opportunity Act"

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A8132 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Private Housing Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 23 §§1160 - 1165, Priv Hous Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4071
2011-2012: A8059
2015-2016: A6287

2013-A8132 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates the "Peconic Bay Region Workforce Housing Opportunity Act".

2013-A8132 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8132

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             August 30, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SALADINO
  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing

AN ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to creating
  the "Peconic Bay region workforce housing opportunity act"

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. This act may be cited as the "Peconic Bay region  workforce
housing opportunity act".
  S 2. Legislative findings.  The legislature hereby finds that critical
to the future of the Peconic Bay region is the need to protect community
stability  by  providing  for  an  adequate  supply of workforce housing
opportunities for all segments of the Peconic Bay community. One of  the
great  paradoxes  of the Peconic Bay regional economy is that the number
of housing units in the Peconic Bay region has increased from 38,000  in
1960  to  more  than 85,000 today.   Yet, the availability of affordable
housing opportunities for moderate income and working class residents is
in critically short supply.
  The adverse impacts from this shortage of  housing  opportunities  are
critical.  For  example,  local  employers  have  difficulty  hiring and
retaining employees because of housing  costs  and  availability.  Local
volunteer  emergency services agencies experience difficulty in recruit-
ment and retention. Long time residents are forced to  leave  the  area.
Traffic congestion is exacerbated by the importation of labor from areas
with  lower  housing  costs.  Other  land  uses such as motels are being
converted to emergency and  permanent  housing.  Finally,  the  lack  of
affordable  housing  is  resulting  in residents being forced to live in
substandard, illegal conditions.
  Unique demographics and economics in the Peconic  Bay  region,  and  a
lack  of  affordable dwelling units, are creating this housing shortage.
The combination of the Peconic Bay region's attractiveness, proximity to
the dense population of the New York metropolitan region, and  proximity

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09265-01-3

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