NY Pub Hsg L § 153 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBG - Public Housing Article 8 - Provisions Relating to Approval, Construction, Management and Operation of Projects 153 - Relocation of Displaced Tenants.

§ 153. Relocation of displaced tenants.  1. (a) Authorities shall have the  power to assist in relocating in suitable accommodations at rentals within their means families of low income  who  have  been  or  will  be deprived  of dwellings within areas or buildings which have been or will be cleared or demolished. In connection with any project, the  authority shall  maintain  or  provide  for  the  maintenance  of tenant placement service in which there shall be recorded lists  of  untenanted  suitable dwellings  available  to  families  of low income and shall furnish such information to such families. Authorities shall from time to  time  make studies  and  surveys  of dwelling units which may become unoccupied and available to families of low income and  shall  also  make  arrangements with  owners and lessors of such dwellings for registration thereof with the tenant placement service.  (b) In connection with any state or municipal  project,  an  authority may  pay  so  much  of  the necessary cost of removal of families of low income, and  of  business  or  commercial  tenants,  from  the  area  or buildings  to  be cleared for the development of the project to suitable locations in such cases and in such amounts as may be  approved  by  the commissioner in the case of a state project or municipality in case of a municipal project, but, except as otherwise provided by law, in no event more  than  four  hundred  dollars  for  any family, nor more than three thousand dollars for any business or commercial tenant. Removal costs so paid by an authority shall be included in the project cost.  (c) In connection with the development  of  any  federal  project,  an authority   may   contract  with  the  federal  government  and  with  a municipality to accept and distribute  relocation  payments  as  may  be agreed upon.   2.  Any person or family residing in an area or building to be cleared or demolished by an authority or municipality  in  connection  with  the development  of  a  project  under  this  chapter  may  be admitted to a dwelling in any project of the authority or municipality if the probable aggregate annual income of such person or family  does  not  exceed  the income  limit  for  continued  occupancy established by the authority or municipality for  the  dwelling  to  which  such  person  or  family  is admitted.   3.  Until  July  first  nineteen hundred seventy whenever an agency as defined in subdivision five of section five hundred two of  the  general municipal  law undertakes the clearance, rehabilitation, conservation or renewal of an area, or  an  authority  or  municipality  undertakes  the clearance,   replanning,   re-construction   or   rehabilitation   of  a substandard or insanitary area in connection with a project  as  defined in  this  chapter,  and if the commissioner determines in the case of an urban renewal project financially assisted by the state as  provided  in sections  five  hundred eight, five hundred nine and five hundred ten of the general municipal law or in the case of a state project  as  defined in  this  chapter  that  the area of such a project is one to which this subdivision shall apply, and an authority  or  municipality  finds  that there are not available suitable dwellings for the relocation of persons or  families  of low income who will be deprived of dwellings within the area of such a project, such authority or  municipality  may,  with  the approval  of  the  commissioner  in the case of state projects, relocate such persons or families by admission to a dwelling in  any  project  of the authority or municipality. The income of a family relocated pursuant to this subdivision shall not be subject to the limitation prescribed in subdivision  one  (a)  of section one hundred fifty-six of this chapter. Notwithstanding any general, special or local law, each person or family admitted to a project pursuant to this subdivision shall be required  to move from such project within one year from the date of admission unless  the  income  of the family is within the limits prescribed for continued occupancy in the project  and,  in  the  opinion  of  the  authority  or municipality,  the removal of the family from the project would occasion undue hardship.