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Senate Bill S9160

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Directs the division of housing and community renewal shall conduct a study on the demographics of tenants living in rent-stabilized apartments in Nassau, Rockland, and Westchester Counties; repealer

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2025-S9160 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10229
Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
Housing

2025-S9160 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the division of housing and community renewal shall conduct a study on the demographics of tenants living in rent-stabilized apartments in Nassau, Rockland, and Westchester Counties, and in the City of Kingston; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

2025-S9160 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9160 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9160
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 9, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed  to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and
   Community Development
 
 AN ACT to direct the division of housing and community renewal conduct a
   study on the demographics of tenants living in rent-stabilized  apart-
   ments  in  Nassau, Rockland, and Westchester Counties, and in the City
   of Kingston; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expi-
   ration thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  1.  The  division  of housing and community renewal shall
 conduct a study on the demographics of tenants living in rent-stabilized
 apartments in Nassau, Rockland, and Westchester  Counties,  and  in  the
 City of Kingston. The report shall report the following demographics:
   (a) income;
   (b) race;
   (c) ethnicity;
   (d) the ages of the residents of the apartment;
   (e) the gender or genders of the residents of the apartment;
   (f) whether children are in the apartment, and, if so, the ages of the
 children; and
   (g)  the  length  of  tenancy  within the apartment at the time of the
 study.
   2. Results of the study shall be reported by county or city, as appli-
 cable.
   3. Upon the conclusion of the  study,  the  division  of  housing  and
 community  renewal  shall  issue a report on the results of the study to
 the governor, the speaker of the assembly, the  temporary  president  of
 the  senate,  and  the  chairs  of  the senate housing, construction and
 community development committee and the assembly committee on housing.
   § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2027, and shall expire  and
 be  deemed  repealed  thirty  days  after  the  delivery  of  the report
 described in section one of this act. The commissioner of  the  division
 of  housing  and  community  renewal  shall  notify the legislative bill
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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