2023 New York Laws › PBG - Public Housing › Article 2 - Division of Housing › 20 - Annual Reports.

§  20. Annual reports. 1. The commissioner shall, on or before October
  first in each year, beginning in nineteen hundred ninety, submit one  or
  more reports to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the
  speaker  of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate and minority
  leader of the assembly on the activity and implementation of  the  state
  housing  assistance  programs for the previous fiscal year. In addition,
  the commissioner shall, on  or  before  February  first  in  each  year,
  beginning in nineteen hundred ninety-one, submit an interim report which
  contains,  in  tabular  format  only,  the  non-narrative  data compiled
  through November thirtieth of each year. The commissioner  shall  submit
  on  or  before  February first, nineteen hundred ninety a report for the
  fiscal year commencing April first, nineteen  hundred  eighty-eight  and
  the  most  up to date non-narrative data, in tabular format only, but in
  no event less  than  the  data  compiled  through  September  thirtieth,
  nineteen hundred eighty-nine. All such reports shall include, but not be
  limited  to  the  low  income housing trust fund program, the affordable
  home ownership development program, the urban initiatives  program,  the
  rural  area revitalization program, the rural rental assistance program,
  the homeless housing and assistance program, the  housing  opportunities
  program  for  the elderly, the state of New York mortgage agency forward
  commitment and mortgage insurance programs, the housing  finance  agency
  secured  loan  rental  program,  the turnkey/enhanced housing trust fund
  program, the special needs housing program, the  permanent  housing  for
  the  homeless  program,  the  infrastructure  development  demonstration
  program and the mobile home cooperative fund program. For the purpose of
  producing such report or reports, the commissioner shall  be  authorized
  to  rely  on  information  provided  by  each  administering  agency  or
  authority. Such report or reports shall, to the extent applicable  to  a
  specific  program,  include  but  not be limited to: (i) a narrative for
  each  program  reported  describing  the   program   purpose,   eligible
  applicants,   eligible  areas,  income  population  to  be  served,  and
  limitations on funding;  (ii)  for  each  eligible  applicant  receiving
  funding  under  the  Housing Trust Fund or the Affordable Home Ownership
  Development programs during the year specified herein, such  applicant's
  name  and  address,  a description of the applicant's contract amount, a
  narrative description of  the  specific  activities  performed  by  such
  applicant,  and  the  income levels of the occupants to be served by the
  units all as proposed by the applicant  at  the  time  the  contract  is
  awarded;  (iii)  a  description  of  the  distribution of funds for each
  category of project funded under each program; (iv) the number of  units
  or  beds  under  award, under contract, under construction and completed
  based on a change in project status during the year  for  each  program;
  (v)  the  number  of  units  or beds assisted during the year under each
  program; (vi) the amount and type of assistance provided for such  units
  or  beds  placed under contract; (vii) based on total project costs, the
  number of  units  or  beds  under  contract  and  assisted  through  new
  construction,   substantial   rehabilitation,  moderate  rehabilitation,
  improvements to existing units or beds, and through acquisition only for
  each program; (viii) for the number of  units  or  beds  under  contract
  assisted  through new construction, substantial rehabilitation, moderate
  rehabilitation, improvements to existing  units  or  beds,  and  through
  acquisition   only,  the  level  of  state  assistance  expressed  as  a
  percentage of total project cost; (ix) for those units  and  beds  under
  contract  a  calculation  of  the  amount  of  non-state  funds provided
  expressed as a percentage of total project cost; (x) the number of units
  or beds completed and under award, under contract and under construction
  for each program based on the current program pipeline; (xi)  for  units
  or  beds  for which mortgage assistance was provided by the state of New

  York mortgage agency, the  number  of  existing  and  newly  constructed
  units;  and  (xii)  a list, by program, of units or beds assisted within
  each county. To the extent that any law  establishing  or  appropriating
  funds  for  any of the aforementioned programs requires the commissioner
  to produce a  report  containing  data  substantially  similar  to  that
  required  herein,  this  report  shall  be  deemed to satisfy such other
  requirements.
2. The commissioner shall, on or  before  December  thirty-first,  two
  thousand  nineteen,  and  on  or  before  December  thirty-first in each
  subsequent year, submit and make publicly  available  a  report  to  the
  governor,  the  temporary  president  of  the senate, the speaker of the
  assembly, and on its website, on the implementation  of  the  system  of
  rent regulation pursuant to chapter five hundred seventy-six of the laws
  of  nineteen  hundred  seventy-four, chapter two hundred seventy four of
  the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred  forty-six,   chapter   three   hundred
  twenty-nine  of  the  laws of nineteen hundred sixty-three, chapter five
  hundred fifty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred  eighty-two,  chapter
  four  hundred  two of the laws of nineteen hundred eighty-three, chapter
  one hundred sixteen  of  the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred  ninety-seven,
  sections  26-501,  26-502,  and 26-520 of the administrative code of the
  city of New York and the housing stability and tenant protection act  of
  2019.  Such  report  shall  include  but  not be limited to: a narrative
  describing the programs and activities undertaken by the office of  rent
  administration and the tenant protection unit, and any other programs or
  activities  undertaken  by  the  division  to implement, administer, and
  enforce the system of rent regulation; and in tabular format,  for  each
  of  the  three fiscal years immediately preceding the date the report is
  due: (i) the number of rent  stabilized  housing  accommodations  within
  each  county;  (ii) the number of rent controlled housing accommodations
  within each county; (iii) the number of applications for  major  capital
  improvements  filed  with  the division, the number of such applications
  approved as submitted, the number of  such  applications  approved  with
  modifications,  and  the  number of such applications rejected; (iv) the
  median and mean value of applications  for  major  capital  improvements
  approved;  (v)  the  number  of  units  which  were  registered with the
  division where the amount charged to and paid by  the  tenant  was  less
  than the registered rent for the housing accommodation; (vi) for housing
  accommodations  that  were registered with the division where the amount
  charged to and paid by the tenant was less than the registered rent  for
  the  housing  accommodation,  the median and mean difference between the
  registered rent for a housing accommodation and the  amount  charged  to
  and  paid  by  the tenant; (vii) the median and mean registered rent for
  housing accommodations for which the lease was renewed  by  an  existing
  tenant;   (viii)  the  median  and  mean  registered  rent  for  housing
  accommodations for which a lease was signed by  a  new  tenant  after  a
  vacancy;  (ix)  the  median  and  mean  increase,  in  dollars  and as a
  percentage, in the registered rent for housing accommodations where  the
  lease  was  signed  by  a new tenant after a vacancy; (x) the median and
  mean increase, in dollars and as a percentage, in  the  registered  rent
  for  housing  accommodations  where the lease was signed by a new tenant
  after a vacancy, where the amount changed  to  and  paid  by  the  prior
  tenant  was the full registered rent; (xi) the median and mean increase,
  in dollars and as a percentage,  in  the  registered  rent  for  housing
  accommodations  where  the  lease  was  signed  by  a new tenant after a
  vacancy, where the amount changed to and paid by the  prior  tenant  was
  less  than  the  registered  rent;  (xii)  the number of rent overcharge
  complaints processed  by  the  division;  (xiii)  the  number  of  final
  overcharge   orders   granting   an  overcharge;  (xiv)  the  number  of

  investigations commenced by the tenant protection  unit,  the  aggregate
  number  of  rent stabilized or rent controlled housing accommodations in
  each county that were  the  subject  of  such  investigations,  and  the
  dispositions  of such investigations. At the time the report is due, the
  commissioner  shall  make  available  to  the  governor,  the  temporary
  president  of  the  senate,  the speaker of the assembly, and shall make
  publicly available, and on its website in machine readable  format,  the
  data used to tabulate the figures required to be included in the report,
  taking any steps necessary to protect confidential information regarding
  ongoing  investigations,  individual  buildings, housing accommodations,
  property owners, and tenants.