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Assembly Bill A11607

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the New York city housing authority to promptly investigate and remove squatters from its apartments

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2025-A11607 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Add §402-i, Pub Hous L

2025-A11607 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the New York city housing authority to investigate complaints of squatters within twenty-four hours and promptly remove squatters from its apartments.

2025-A11607 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11607
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 5, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gibbs) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to requiring the New
   York city housing authority to promptly investigate and remove  squat-
   ters from its apartments
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a  new  section
 402-i to read as follows:
   § 402-I. INVESTIGATION AND REMOVAL OF SQUATTERS. 1. WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR
 HOURS  OF  RECEIVING  A COMPLAINT OF A SQUATTER, AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION
 SEVEN HUNDRED ELEVEN OF THE REAL PROPERTY ACTIONS AND  PROCEEDINGS  LAW,
 IN  A  NEW  YORK  CITY  HOUSING AUTHORITY APARTMENT, THE AUTHORITY SHALL
 INVESTIGATE SUCH COMPLAINT.
   2. WHERE A SQUATTER IS FOUND TO BE OCCUPYING A NEW YORK  CITY  HOUSING
 AUTHORITY  APARTMENT,  THE  AUTHORITY  SHALL  UTILIZE THE MOST EXPEDIENT
 LEGAL MEANS OF REMOVING SUCH SQUATTER FROM SUCH APARTMENT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16049-01-6

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