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Senate Bill S7184

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Extends rent stabilization to units occupied by tenants of housing accommodations owned by charitable and non-profit institutions

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2025-S7184 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Amd §26-511, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S8322
2023-2024: S5070

2025-S7184 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that certain charitable and non-profit institutions shall not have the right to refuse to renew a lease of any current or future tenant occupying housing accommodations owned by such institution except where specifically authorized by law.

2025-S7184 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7184 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7184
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 3, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
   Community Development
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
   relation to extending rent stabilization to units occupied by  tenants
   of  housing  accommodations  owned by charitable and non-profit insti-
   tutions
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Clause (i) of subparagraph (c) of paragraph 9 of subdivi-
 sion c of section 26-511 of the administrative code of the city  of  New
 York, is amended to read as follows:
   (i)  the  tenant's  initial tenancy commenced after the owner acquired
 the property and the owner requires the  unit  in  connection  with  its
 charitable  or educational purposes including, but not limited to, hous-
 ing for affiliated persons; provided that with respect to any UNIT OCCU-
 PIED BY A tenant whose right to occupancy commenced prior to July first,
 nineteen hundred seventy-eight pursuant to a written  lease  or  written
 rental  agreement  and  who  did  not  receive notice at the time of the
 execution of the lease that [his or her] THEIR tenancy  was  subject  to
 non-renewal, the institution shall not have the right to refuse to renew
 SUCH  TENANT  OR THEIR SUCCESSORS, OR ANY TENANT THEREAFTER, pursuant to
 this subparagraph UNLESS SUCH REFUSAL OR NON-RENEWAL IS BASED  ON  OTHER
 GROUNDS  SPECIFIED  IN STATE LAW; provided further that a tenant who was
 affiliated with the institution at the  commencement  of  [his  or  her]
 THEIR tenancy and whose affiliation terminates during such tenancy shall
 not have the right to a renewal lease; or
   §  2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
 ments to section 26-511 of chapter 4 of title 26 of  the  administrative
 code  of  the  city  of  New  York made by section one of this act shall
 expire on the same date as such law expires and  shall  not  affect  the
 expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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