N.Y.C. Admin. Code § L.L. 2025/158: L.L. 2025/158

Enactment date: 11/8/2025

Int. No. 1265-A

By Council Members Sanchez, Louis, Feliz, Hudson, Gutiérrez, Farías, Narcisse, Nurse, Krishnan, Cabán, Bottcher, Schulman, Restler, Hanif, Brooks-Powers, Banks, Brannan, Ung, De La Rosa, Brewer, Won and Dinowitz

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to notifications regarding applications in New York City’s housing portal and designation of a representative to receive notifications

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]

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§ 2. a. Study and report. The department of housing preservation and development shall conduct a study to assess the effectiveness of notifications sent to representatives that have been designated by users of such department’s housing portal website, pursuant to subparagraph (k) of paragraph 2 of subdivision a of section 26-1802 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by section one of this local law. Such study shall assess the effectiveness of notifications to such designated representatives as a means of serving users who have limited access to the internet, limited fluency with technology, disabilities, or other needs that may render the services of such a representative helpful to such users. In conducting such study, such department shall solicit feedback from local service providers and other individuals who have been designated as representatives pursuant to such subparagraph, and shall consult with any other city agency that sends similar notifications to similar third-party representatives. At minimum, such study shall include:

1. A consideration of whether the implementation of additional services for such representatives, including, but not limited to, allowing such representatives to create accounts on the housing portal maintained pursuant to such section 26-1802, would improve the user-friendliness of such housing portal or provide other benefits to such representatives or the users such representatives represent;

2. An estimate of the cost of implementing the services considered pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subdivision; and

3. An estimate of when such department would be able to implement services considered pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subdivision.

b. No later than 1 year after the effective date of this local law, the commissioner of the department of housing preservation and development shall submit a report on the results of the study conducted pursuant to this section to the mayor and the speaker of the council and shall post such report on the department’s website.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 18 months after it becomes law.