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A11484 • 2025

Relates to affordable housing in New York city

Relates to affordable housing in New York city

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Sponsor
Simcha Eichenstein
Last action
2026-05-27
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

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Relates to affordable housing in New York city

Relates to affordable housing in New York city Provides that no tax exemption shall be given for any unit that has not agreed in writing to maintain such unit as their primary residence for no less than five years from the acquisition of such unit.

What This Bill Does

  • Relates to affordable housing in New York city Provides that no tax exemption shall be given for any unit that has not agreed in writing to maintain such unit as their primary residence for no less than five years from the acquisition of such unit.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-27 Assembly

    REFERRED TO REAL PROPERTY TAXATION

Official Summary Text

Relates to affordable housing in New York city
Provides that no tax exemption shall be given for any unit that has not agreed in writing to maintain such unit as their primary residence for no less than five years from the acquisition of such unit.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11484

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      May 27, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Eichenstein)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Real Property Taxation

        AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to the affordable
          neighborhoods for New Yorkers tax incentive

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (d) and (rr) of subdivision 1 of  section  485-x
     2  of the real property tax law, as added by section 1 of part U of chapter
     3  56 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (d)  "Affordability  option  D"  shall mean a homeownership project in
     5  which one hundred percent of the units shall have  an  average  assessed
     6  value  per square foot that does not exceed eighty-nine dollars upon the
     7  first assessment following the completion date and where [each owner] AT
     8  LEAST SIXTY PERCENT OF THE OWNERS of any such [unit] UNITS shall  agree,
     9  in writing, to maintain such unit as their primary residence for no less
    10  than  five  years  from the acquisition of such unit; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
    11  THAT ANY UNIT WHO HAS NOT SIGNED SUCH AN AGREEMENT SHALL NOT BE ELIGIBLE
    12  FOR ANY EXEMPTION OF TAXES PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (E) OF SUBDIVISION  TWO
    13  OF THIS SECTION.
    14    (rr)  "Twenty year benefit" shall mean: (i) for the construction peri-
    15  od, a one hundred percent exemption from real property  taxation,  other
    16  than  assessments  for  local  improvements; (ii) for the first fourteen
    17  years of the restriction period, a one hundred  percent  exemption  from
    18  real  property  taxation, other than assessments for local improvements,
    19  provided, however, that no exemption shall be given for: (A) any portion
    20  of the square footage of a unit with  an  assessed  value  that  exceeds
    21  eighty-nine  dollars per square foot; OR (B) ANY UNIT WHO HAS NOT AGREED
    22  IN WRITING TO MAINTAIN SUCH UNIT AS THEIR PRIMARY RESIDENCE FOR NO  LESS
    23  THAN  FIVE  YEARS  FROM  THE ACQUISITION OF SUCH UNIT; and (iii) for the
    24  final six  years  of  the  restriction  period,  a  twenty-five  percent
    25  exemption  from  real property taxation, other than assessments for: (A)
    26  local improvements, provided, however, that no exemption shall be  given
    27  for  any  portion of the square footage of a unit with an assessed value
    28  that exceeds eighty-nine dollars per square foot; OR (B)  ANY  UNIT  WHO
    29  HAS  NOT  AGREED IN WRITING TO MAINTAIN SUCH UNIT AS THEIR PRIMARY RESI-
    30  DENCE FOR NO LESS THAN FIVE YEARS FROM THE ACQUISITION OF SUCH UNIT.
    31    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15933-01-6