Directs the division of housing and community renewal to conduct a study on alternatives to the affordable New York housing program by investigating new models and partnerships to provide affordable housing to residents of the state.
Directs the division of housing and community renewal to conduct a study on alternatives to the affordable New York housing program by investigating new models and partnerships to provide affordable housing to residents of the state.
Directs the commissioner of housing and community renewal to create and maintain a database of vacant residential housing units, and to create an affordable housing development program; imposes a tax on vacant residential housing units; creates an affordable housing development program fund.
Directs the commissioner of housing and community renewal, in consultation with the director of the budget and the commissioner of taxation and finance, to conduct a study to examine the efficacy of the creation of a statewide affordable housing agency whose sole mission is to directly build affordable housing utilizing state funds and employing residents of the state to accomplish such construction of affordable housing.