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Assembly Bill A6909A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the placement of homeless shelters

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2025-A6909 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Cities
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Add §21-124.2, NYC Ad Cd

2025-A6909 - Summary

Requires that no homeless shelter shall be located within five hundred feet of a transit facility or within a building that has a rent-controlled or rent-stabilized dwelling unit.

2025-A6909 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6909
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CHANG,  GALLAHAN, E. BROWN, SMULLEN, GIGLIO,
   NOVAKHOV, McDONOUGH, PALMESANO  --  read  once  and  referred  to  the
   Committee on Cities
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
   relation to the placement of homeless shelters

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
 by adding a new section 21-124.2 to read as follows:
   § 21-124.2 PLACEMENT OF HOMELESS SHELTERS.   A.  NO  HOMELESS  SHELTER
 SHALL BE ESTABLISHED WITHIN FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF ANY TRANSIT FACILITY.
   B. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "TRANSIT FACILITY" SHALL
 MEAN A RAPID TRANSIT RAILROAD, OMNIBUS LINE OR ANY OTHER FACILITY OR ANY
 RAILROAD  IN  THE  CITY  USED FOR LOCAL SERVICE IN THE TRANSPORTATION OF
 PASSENGERS AS COMMON CARRIERS FOR HIRE OR IN THE TRANSPORTATION  OF  THE
 UNITED STATES MAIL OR PERSONAL PROPERTY, AND ANY PORTION THEREOF AND THE
 RIGHTS, LEASEHOLDS OR OTHER INTERESTS THEREIN, TOGETHER WITH THE DEVICES
 AND APPURTENANCES, FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT THEREOF AND POWER PLANTS AND
 OTHER  INSTRUMENTALITIES USED OR USEFUL THEREFOR OR IN CONNECTION THERE-
 WITH.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08255-01-5

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2025-A6909A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Cities
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Add §21-124.2, NYC Ad Cd

2025-A6909A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that no homeless shelter shall be located within five hundred feet of a transit facility or within a building that has a rent-controlled or rent-stabilized dwelling unit.

2025-A6909A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6909--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CHANG,  GALLAHAN, E. BROWN, SMULLEN, GIGLIO,
   NOVAKHOV, McDONOUGH, PALMESANO, COLTON -- read once  and  referred  to
   the  Committee  on Cities -- recommitted to the Committee on Cities in
   accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
   amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
   tee
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
   relation to the placement of homeless shelters
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is  amended
 by adding a new section 21-124.2 to read as follows:
   §  21-124.2  PLACEMENT  OF HOMELESS SHELTERS.   A. NO HOMELESS SHELTER
 SHALL BE ESTABLISHED WITHIN FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF  ANY  TRANSIT  FACILITY
 NOR  WITHIN  A  BUILDING  THAT  HAS A RENT-CONTROLLED OR RENT-STABILIZED
 DWELLING UNIT.
   B. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "TRANSIT FACILITY" SHALL
 MEAN A RAPID TRANSIT RAILROAD, OMNIBUS LINE OR ANY OTHER FACILITY OR ANY
 RAILROAD IN THE CITY USED FOR LOCAL SERVICE  IN  THE  TRANSPORTATION  OF
 PASSENGERS  AS  COMMON CARRIERS FOR HIRE OR IN THE TRANSPORTATION OF THE
 UNITED STATES MAIL OR PERSONAL PROPERTY, AND ANY PORTION THEREOF AND THE
 RIGHTS, LEASEHOLDS OR OTHER INTERESTS THEREIN, TOGETHER WITH THE DEVICES
 AND APPURTENANCES, FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT THEREOF AND POWER PLANTS AND
 OTHER INSTRUMENTALITIES USED OR USEFUL THEREFOR OR IN CONNECTION  THERE-
 WITH.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08255-02-6

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