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Assembly Bill A9164A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes uniform waiting list priorities for domestic violence survivors applying for public housing

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2025-A9164 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Add §62, Pub Hous L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A9735
2021-2022: A3534
2023-2024: A1113

2025-A9164 - Summary

Establishes uniform waiting list priorities for domestic violence survivors applying for public housing.

2025-A9164 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9164
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 17, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Housing
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public housing law, in relation to establishing
   uniform waiting list priorities for domestic violence survivors apply-
   ing for public housing
 
   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
 62 to read as follows:
   § 62. WAITING LIST PRIORITIES; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.  1.  WHERE  A  LOCAL
 HOUSING  AUTHORITY  ESTABLISHES  APPLICANT  PREFERENCES ON THEIR WAITING
 LIST, APPLICANTS WHO ARE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHALL RECEIVE  THE
 SAME  PRIORITY  AS  OTHER DISENFRANCHISED POPULATIONS, SUCH AS THE DISA-
 BLED, THE ELDERLY  AND  THE  HOMELESS,  WHERE  THE  VICTIM  OF  DOMESTIC
 VIOLENCE:
   (A) WILL CONTINUE TO SUFFER FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IF THEY CONTINUE TO
 LIVE IN CURRENT RESIDENCE; OR
   (B)  HAS LEFT THE RESIDENCE DUE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND IS NOT LIVING
 IN STANDARD PERMANENT REPLACEMENT HOUSING.
   2. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, VICTIM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHALL
 HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS DEFINED IN SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE-A OF
 THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW.
   3. FOR APPLICANTS ON THE WAITING LIST WITH THE SAME PREFERENCE STATUS,
 LOCAL PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITIES SHALL SELECT APPLICANTS USING THE  DATE
 AND TIME OF APPLICATION, GIVING PRIORITY TO APPLICATIONS IN THE ORDER OF
 WHICH THEY ARE RECEIVED.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to local
 housing authorities upon the addition  of  any  person  to  any  of  the
 authority's waiting lists.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00197-01-5

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2025-A9164A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Add §62, Pub Hous L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A9735
2021-2022: A3534
2023-2024: A1113

2025-A9164A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes uniform waiting list priorities for domestic violence survivors applying for public housing.

2025-A9164A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  9164--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 17, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PAULIN, WRIGHT, DINOWITZ, GALLAGHER, SEAWRIGHT,
   REILLY, CUNNINGHAM, HEVESI, SIMON -- read once  and  referred  to  the
   Committee  on  Housing  --  recommitted to the Committee on Housing 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 public housing  law,  in  relation  to  establishing
   uniform waiting list priorities for domestic violence survivors apply-
   ing for public housing
 
   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
 62 to read as follows:
   §  62.  WAITING  LIST PRIORITIES; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. 1. WHERE A PUBLIC
 HOUSING AUTHORITY ESTABLISHES APPLICANT  PREFERENCES  ON  THEIR  WAITING
 LIST,  APPLICANTS  WHO  ARE  VICTIMS  OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHALL RECEIVE
 TRANSFER AND PLACEMENT PRIORITY WHERE THE VICTIM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE:
   (A) WILL CONTINUE TO SUFFER FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IF THEY CONTINUE TO
 LIVE IN THEIR CURRENT RESIDENCE; OR
   (B) HAS LEFT THEIR RESIDENCE DUE  TO  DOMESTIC  VIOLENCE  AND  IS  NOT
 LIVING IN STANDARD PERMANENT REPLACEMENT HOUSING.
   2.  FOR  THE  PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "DOMESTIC VIOLENCE" SHALL HAVE
 THE SAME MEANING AS DEFINED 34 U.S.C. SECTION 12291 (A) (12).
   3. FOR APPLICANTS ON THE WAITING LIST WITH THE SAME PREFERENCE STATUS,
 PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITIES SHALL SELECT APPLICANTS USING  THE  DATE  AND
 TIME  OF  APPLICATION,  GIVING  PRIORITY TO APPLICATIONS IN THE ORDER OF
 WHICH THEY ARE RECEIVED.
   4. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION IS INTENDED TO  PREVENT  A  PUBLIC  HOUSING
 AUTHORITY FROM ESTABLISHING THEIR OWN PRIORITY CODE OR SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC
 HOUSING,  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT  VICTIMS  OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHALL
 RECEIVE THE HIGHEST PRIORITY IN PUBLIC HOUSING OR TRANSFERS UNLESS  SUCH
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00197-04-6

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