Rosenthal L, Gonzalez-Rojas, Shimsky, Ardila, Seawright, Hevesi, Cunningham, De Los Santos,
Gallagher, Glick, Zaccaro, Taylor, O'Donnell, Lucas, Brown K, Levenberg, Kelles, Burdick, Jackson,
Epstein, Lee, Bores
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Requires DHCR to develop a common application and web portal for certain funding, tax credits, loans, and grants for housing; requires such application to be available upon request from relevant state agencies; requires such web portal to be manageable by relevant state agencies; makes relevant provisions.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A9354B
SPONSOR: Simone TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the public housing law, in relation to requiring the
commissioner of housing and community renewal to develop a common appli-
cation and web portal for certain funding, tax credits, loans, and
grants for housing development
PURPOSE:
To streamline the housing assistance application process through the
creation of a shared web portal
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 establishes that the commissioner will create a common appli-
cation for housing assistance in collaboration with other state agencies
the commissioner deems necessary
Section 2 establishes the effective date of the bill
JUSTIFICATION:
This bill directs the creation of a common application, developed by the
Commissioner of the Division of Homes and Community Renewal in collab-
oration with state agencies administering housing assistance programs.
The system will unify the application process, saving resources for
organizations building affordable housing. This common application will
be used by all state agencies who administer housing funds, allowing
applicants to complete and submit their applications online through a
dedicated web portal.
The process for applying for funding to build affordable housing often
involves redundant entry of biographical information for each applica-
tion, in many cases requiring separate applications to different agen-
cies for the same housing development. This bill seeks to alleviate this
burden by establishing a centralized Housing Assistance Application and
Web Portal that will reduce the amount of time and resources needed for
applicants building affordable housing.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
One hundred eightieth day after it becomes law
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9354--B
IN ASSEMBLY
March 6, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMONE, L. ROSENTHAL, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, SHIMSKY,
ARDILA, SEAWRIGHT, HEVESI, CUNNINGHAM, DE LOS SANTOS, GALLAGHER,
GLICK, ZACCARO, TAYLOR, O'DONNELL, LUCAS, K. BROWN, LEVENBERG, KELLES,
BURDICK, JACKSON, EPSTEIN, LEE -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Housing -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported and
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- again reported from
said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to requiring the
commissioner of housing and community renewal to develop a common
application and web portal for certain funding, tax credits, loans,
and grants for housing development
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a new section
2 14-a to read as follows:
3 § 14-a. Housing assistance application and web portal. 1. The commis-
4 sioner, in consultation with any other state agency that the commission-
5 er deems necessary, shall cause to be developed a common application and
6 web portal with which a business or organization may apply for and
7 manage any funding, tax credit, loan, or grant for housing development
8 that such business or organization is entitled to receive under the laws
9 of the state, and that is capable of meeting all other requirements of
10 this section.
11 2. (a) The common application developed pursuant to this section shall
12 be made available to a business or organization upon request from a
13 state agency that grants funding, tax credits, loans, or grants for
14 housing development. Such application shall also be capable of being
15 completed and submitted by an applicant on the web portal created pursu-
16 ant to this section.
17 (b) The web portal required to be developed pursuant to this section
18 shall be accessible by any state agency required to administer any fund-
19 ing, tax credit, loan, or grant for housing development required of such
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 state agency under the laws of the state, and any such funding, tax
2 credit, loan, or grant for housing development shall be made capable of
3 administration through such web portal.
4 (c) Upon development of the web portal by the commissioner, any state
5 agency required to administer any funding, tax credit, loan, or grant
6 for housing development under the laws of the state shall upload any
7 incorporating documents, bylaws, or any other relevant information that
8 such state agency deems helpful to business or organization using such
9 web portal.
10 3. The provisions of this section shall apply only to statewide fund-
11 ing, tax credits, loans, or grants for housing development where the
12 business or organization submits an application to a state agency, and
13 shall not include any locally managed funding, tax credit, loan, or
14 grant for housing development where the business or organization submits
15 an application to a designated local entity or where the business or
16 organization submits an application to a not-for-profit corporation.
17 4. The commissioner shall have the authority to obtain any information
18 the commissioner shall deem necessary to fulfill the provisions of this
19 section from any state agency.
20 5. For the purposes of this section, the term "state agency" shall
21 mean any state agency, department, commission, division, office, bureau,
22 or subdivision thereof.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
24 it shall have become a law.
