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NY A07528
Bill
Status
4/1/2025
Primary Sponsor
Michael Fitzpatrick
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AI Summary
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Creates a community improvement grant program administered by the Division of Housing and Community Renewal to provide state financial assistance to municipalities with populations under one million
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Requires municipalities receiving grants to establish citizens' participation committees composed of local charitable, not-for-profit, faith-based, business, and community organizations, plus interested residents, to direct expenditure of grant funds
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Targets neighborhoods with significant vacant, deteriorated, substandard, or abandoned residential housing stock that exceeds current population needs
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Allows grant funds to be spent on property acquisition (unlimited), demolition (unlimited), selective rehabilitation (up to 25%), neighborhood beautification (up to 20%), administration (up to 10%), property improvement mini-grants up to $1,000 each (up to 20%), and planning/market studies (up to 10%)
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Authorizes transfer of vacant land acquired through grant funds to eligible individual homeowners or not-for-profit agencies for one dollar, with preference given to adjoining property owners who occupy their residences
Legislative Description
Establishes a system of community improvement grants to be administered by and through neighborhood citizens' participation committees; makes definitions; directs commissioner of the New York state division for housing and community renewal to create the community improvement grant program; provides that municipalities receiving such grants establish citizens' participation committees.
Last Action
referred to housing
1/7/2026