A6909 • 2025

Relates to the placement of homeless shelters

Housing

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Lester Chang
Last action: 2026-05-21
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to the placement of homeless shelters

Relates to the placement of homeless shelters Requires that no homeless shelter shall be located within five hundred feet of a transit facility or within a building that has a rent-controlled or rent-stabilized dwelling unit.

What This Bill Does

Relates to the placement of homeless shelters Requires that no homeless shelter shall be located within five hundred feet of a transit facility or within a building that has a rent-controlled or rent-stabilized dwelling unit.

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Bill History

2026-05-21 Assembly
HELD FOR CONSIDERATION IN CITIES
2026-03-26 Assembly
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CITIES
2026-03-26 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 6909A
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO CITIES
2025-03-18 Assembly
REFERRED TO CITIES

Official Summary Text

Relates to the placement of homeless shelters
Requires that no homeless shelter shall be located within five hundred feet of a transit facility or within a building that has a rent-controlled or rent-stabilized dwelling unit.

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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                                          6909

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     March 18, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CHANG,  GALLAHAN, E. BROWN, SMULLEN, GIGLIO,
          NOVAKHOV, McDONOUGH, PALMESANO  --  read  once  and  referred  to  the
          Committee on Cities

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
          relation to the placement of homeless shelters

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

     1    Section  1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
     2  by adding a new section 21-124.2 to read as follows:
     3    § 21-124.2 PLACEMENT OF HOMELESS SHELTERS.   A.  NO  HOMELESS  SHELTER
     4  SHALL BE ESTABLISHED WITHIN FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF ANY TRANSIT FACILITY.
     5    B. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "TRANSIT FACILITY" SHALL
     6  MEAN A RAPID TRANSIT RAILROAD, OMNIBUS LINE OR ANY OTHER FACILITY OR ANY
     7  RAILROAD  IN  THE  CITY  USED FOR LOCAL SERVICE IN THE TRANSPORTATION OF
     8  PASSENGERS AS COMMON CARRIERS FOR HIRE OR IN THE TRANSPORTATION  OF  THE
     9  UNITED STATES MAIL OR PERSONAL PROPERTY, AND ANY PORTION THEREOF AND THE
    10  RIGHTS, LEASEHOLDS OR OTHER INTERESTS THEREIN, TOGETHER WITH THE DEVICES
    11  AND APPURTENANCES, FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT THEREOF AND POWER PLANTS AND
    12  OTHER  INSTRUMENTALITIES USED OR USEFUL THEREFOR OR IN CONNECTION THERE-
    13  WITH.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08255-01-5