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A11607 • 2025

Requires the New York city housing authority to promptly investigate and remove squatters from its apartments

Requires the New York city housing authority to promptly investigate and remove squatters from its apartments

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Sponsor
Eddie Gibbs
Last action
2026-06-05
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the New York city housing authority to promptly investigate and remove squatters from its apartments

Requires the New York city housing authority to promptly investigate and remove squatters from its apartments Requires the New York city housing authority to investigate complaints of squatters within twenty-four hours and promptly remove squatters from its apartments.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires the New York city housing authority to promptly investigate and remove squatters from its apartments Requires the New York city housing authority to investigate complaints of squatters within twenty-four hours and promptly remove squatters from its apartments.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-06-05 Assembly

    REFERRED TO HOUSING

Official Summary Text

Requires the New York city housing authority to promptly investigate and remove squatters from its apartments
Requires the New York city housing authority to investigate complaints of squatters within twenty-four hours and promptly remove squatters from its apartments.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11607

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      June 5, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gibbs) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Housing

        AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to requiring the New
          York city housing authority to promptly investigate and remove  squat-
          ters from its apartments

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

     1    Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  402-i to read as follows:
     3    § 402-I. INVESTIGATION AND REMOVAL OF SQUATTERS. 1. WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR
     4  HOURS  OF  RECEIVING  A COMPLAINT OF A SQUATTER, AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION
     5  SEVEN HUNDRED ELEVEN OF THE REAL PROPERTY ACTIONS AND  PROCEEDINGS  LAW,
     6  IN  A  NEW  YORK  CITY  HOUSING AUTHORITY APARTMENT, THE AUTHORITY SHALL
     7  INVESTIGATE SUCH COMPLAINT.
     8    2. WHERE A SQUATTER IS FOUND TO BE OCCUPYING A NEW YORK  CITY  HOUSING
     9  AUTHORITY  APARTMENT,  THE  AUTHORITY  SHALL  UTILIZE THE MOST EXPEDIENT
    10  LEGAL MEANS OF REMOVING SUCH SQUATTER FROM SUCH APARTMENT.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    12  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16049-01-6