New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle A - Governor's Office › Chapter I - Executive Orders › Part 3 - Executive Orders (Hugh L. Carey) › Section 3.96 - Executive order no. 96: creating the new york state council on housing and community development

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
There are in the State of New York a number of public
					 agencies which have been created to encourage and assist in community
					 development activities and to provide safe, sanitary and adequate housing for
					 persons and families of low or moderate income by developing, financing,
					 preserving, maintaining and supervising such housing. These agencies include
					 the New York State Housing Finance Agency, the New York State Project Finance
					 Agency, the New York State Urban Development Corporation and its subsidiary,
					 the Mortgage Loan Enforcement and Administration Corporation, the State of New
					 York Mortgage Agency, the New York State Department of State, and the New York
					 State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (herein collectively referred
					 to as the "agencies"). Each of the agencies has been vested with independent
					 powers, the exercise of which has resulted in diffusion of the efforts of the
					 State and the agencies to fulfill their purposes, in competition for both
					 public and private resources available for such purposes, and in the
					 duplication of services and functions performed by the agencies.
It is in the best interest of the people of the State to
					 closely coordinate the housing and community development activities of the
					 agencies, efficiently share resources among the agencies and develop integrated
					 State housing and community development policies. It is, therefore, desirable
					 to create a council whose purpose it is to serve as a focal point for policy
					 development and planning, to coordinate activities of the agencies, to review
					 and make recommendations concerning the operations and administration of the
					 agencies, and to review and make recommendations as to the availability and
					 allocation of public and private resources for housing and community
					 development purposes.
I. The New York
				  State Council on Housing and Community Development created; membership.
There is hereby created within the Executive Department a
					 council to be known as the New York State Council on Housing and Community
					 Development ("council"). The council shall consist of the following
					 public-sector members: the Secretary of State, the Commissioner of the Division
					 of Housing and Community Renewal, the chairpersons and chief executive officers
					 of the Housing Finance Agency (and the Project Finance Agency), the Urban
					 Development Corporation, the Mortgage Loan Enforcement and Administration
					 Corporation, the State Mortgage Agency, and the directors of the Office of
					 Development Planning, the Office of Urban Revitalization and the Division of
					 the Budget. The council shall also consist of three private-sector members to
					 be appointed by the Governor. The Governor shall appoint a chairman from among
					 the members and such chairman shall serve at the pleasure of the
					 Governor.
II. Powers and
				  responsibilities of the council.
A.
				  Coordination of housing and community development policy. The council shall
				  advise and assist the Governor in the development of an integrated and
				  coordinated housing and community development policy. The result of the
				  council's policy development coordination efforts shall be a housing and
				  community development strategy designed to provide for the orderly, effective
				  and coordinated implementation of community development programs and for the
				  development, preservation, financing, maintenance and supervision of housing
				  for persons and families of low income.
B. Coordination and review of State agency
				  operations.
1. The council, with the advice
				  and assistance of its member agencies, shall coordinate and assure the
				  efficient implementation of the housing and community development programs of
				  the agencies and shall review and comment upon:
i. the method and manner in which each agency
				  proposes to meet the needs of the people of the State and its
				  localities;
ii. the economic
				  feasibility of existing and proposed programs of the agencies;
iii. the forms of governmental assistance
				  available or required to assure the economic and social stability and
				  desirability of the programs; and
iv. applications to be submitted by such
				  agencies for subsidies or other forms of assistance, direct or indirect, from
				  Federal, State or local governments.
2. The council, with the advice and
				  assistance of its member agencies, shall review the housing and community
				  development programs, projects and operations of the agencies and make
				  recommendations to the Governor and the agencies regarding legislative,
				  regulatory and administrative amendments or modifications necessary or
				  desirable to assist the agencies in fulfilling their public purposes and to
				  assure the economic stability of these programs and the agencies.
3. The council shall recommend to the
				  Governor, and assist in implementing, such actions as may be necessary or
				  desirable to clearly define agency responsibilities and to coordinate programs
				  and activities within and among the agencies.
C. Relationship with Federal and local
				  governments and the private sector.
1. The
				  council shall maintain liaison with such Federal and local governmental
				  agencies and organizations in the private sector as it deems necessary or
				  desirable for the efficient performance of responsibilities under this order.
				  The council shall serve, or shall designate one of its members to serve, as the
				  State's spokesperson in Federal, State and local proceedings which
				  substantially involve matters relating to the State housing and community
				  development policy.
2. The council
				  shall review the applicability and utility of Federal subsidies and other forms
				  of assistance, including, without limitation, rent subsidies, mortgage
				  insurance and coinsurance programs, operating subsidies, and guarantees of
				  indebtedness, and make recommendations to the Governor regarding legislative,
				  regulatory and administrative amendments or modifications necessary or
				  desirable to enhance the effectiveness of such programs in meeting the needs of
				  the people of the State and the agencies.
D. Miscellaneous. The council shall perform,
				  from time to time, such other functions as the Governor may assign to
				  it.