New York Laws
Article 2 - Division of Housing
20 - Annual Reports.

§ 20. Annual reports. 1. The commissioner shall, on or before October
first in each year, beginning in nineteen hundred ninety, submit one or
more reports to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the
speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate and minority
leader of the assembly on the activity and implementation of the state
housing assistance programs for the previous fiscal year. In addition,
the commissioner shall, on or before February first in each year,
beginning in nineteen hundred ninety-one, submit an interim report which
contains, in tabular format only, the non-narrative data compiled
through November thirtieth of each year. The commissioner shall submit
on or before February first, nineteen hundred ninety a report for the
fiscal year commencing April first, nineteen hundred eighty-eight and
the most up to date non-narrative data, in tabular format only, but in
no event less than the data compiled through September thirtieth,
nineteen hundred eighty-nine. All such reports shall include, but not be
limited to the low income housing trust fund program, the affordable
home ownership development program, the urban initiatives program, the
rural area revitalization program, the rural rental assistance program,
the homeless housing and assistance program, the housing opportunities
program for the elderly, the state of New York mortgage agency forward
commitment and mortgage insurance programs, the housing finance agency
secured loan rental program, the turnkey/enhanced housing trust fund
program, the special needs housing program, the permanent housing for
the homeless program, the infrastructure development demonstration
program and the mobile home cooperative fund program. For the purpose of
producing such report or reports, the commissioner shall be authorized
to rely on information provided by each administering agency or
authority. Such report or reports shall, to the extent applicable to a
specific program, include but not be limited to: (i) a narrative for
each program reported describing the program purpose, eligible
applicants, eligible areas, income population to be served, and
limitations on funding; (ii) for each eligible applicant receiving
funding under the Housing Trust Fund or the Affordable Home Ownership
Development programs during the year specified herein, such applicant's
name and address, a description of the applicant's contract amount, a
narrative description of the specific activities performed by such
applicant, and the income levels of the occupants to be served by the
units all as proposed by the applicant at the time the contract is
awarded; (iii) a description of the distribution of funds for each
category of project funded under each program; (iv) the number of units
or beds under award, under contract, under construction and completed
based on a change in project status during the year for each program;
(v) the number of units or beds assisted during the year under each
program; (vi) the amount and type of assistance provided for such units
or beds placed under contract; (vii) based on total project costs, the
number of units or beds under contract and assisted through new
construction, substantial rehabilitation, moderate rehabilitation,
improvements to existing units or beds, and through acquisition only for
each program; (viii) for the number of units or beds under contract
assisted through new construction, substantial rehabilitation, moderate
rehabilitation, improvements to existing units or beds, and through
acquisition only, the level of state assistance expressed as a
percentage of total project cost; (ix) for those units and beds under
contract a calculation of the amount of non-state funds provided
expressed as a percentage of total project cost; (x) the number of units
or beds completed and under award, under contract and under construction
for each program based on the current program pipeline; (xi) for units
or beds for which mortgage assistance was provided by the state of New

York mortgage agency, the number of existing and newly constructed
units; and (xii) a list, by program, of units or beds assisted within
each county. To the extent that any law establishing or appropriating
funds for any of the aforementioned programs requires the commissioner
to produce a report containing data substantially similar to that
required herein, this report shall be deemed to satisfy such other
requirements.

2. The commissioner shall, on or before December thirty-first, two
thousand nineteen, and on or before December thirty-first in each
subsequent year, submit and make publicly available a report to the
governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the
assembly, and on its website, on the implementation of the system of
rent regulation pursuant to chapter five hundred seventy-six of the laws
of nineteen hundred seventy-four, chapter two hundred seventy four of
the laws of nineteen hundred forty-six, chapter three hundred
twenty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-three, chapter five
hundred fifty-five of the laws of nineteen hundred eighty-two, chapter
four hundred two of the laws of nineteen hundred eighty-three, chapter
one hundred sixteen of the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-seven,
sections 26-501, 26-502, and 26-520 of the administrative code of the
city of New York and the housing stability and tenant protection act of
2019. Such report shall include but not be limited to: a narrative
describing the programs and activities undertaken by the office of rent
administration and the tenant protection unit, and any other programs or
activities undertaken by the division to implement, administer, and
enforce the system of rent regulation; and in tabular format, for each
of the three fiscal years immediately preceding the date the report is
due: (i) the number of rent stabilized housing accommodations within
each county; (ii) the number of rent controlled housing accommodations
within each county; (iii) the number of applications for major capital
improvements filed with the division, the number of such applications
approved as submitted, the number of such applications approved with
modifications, and the number of such applications rejected; (iv) the
median and mean value of applications for major capital improvements
approved; (v) the number of units which were registered with the
division where the amount charged to and paid by the tenant was less
than the registered rent for the housing accommodation; (vi) for housing
accommodations that were registered with the division where the amount
charged to and paid by the tenant was less than the registered rent for
the housing accommodation, the median and mean difference between the
registered rent for a housing accommodation and the amount charged to
and paid by the tenant; (vii) the median and mean registered rent for
housing accommodations for which the lease was renewed by an existing
tenant; (viii) the median and mean registered rent for housing
accommodations for which a lease was signed by a new tenant after a
vacancy; (ix) the median and mean increase, in dollars and as a
percentage, in the registered rent for housing accommodations where the
lease was signed by a new tenant after a vacancy; (x) the median and
mean increase, in dollars and as a percentage, in the registered rent
for housing accommodations where the lease was signed by a new tenant
after a vacancy, where the amount changed to and paid by the prior
tenant was the full registered rent; (xi) the median and mean increase,
in dollars and as a percentage, in the registered rent for housing
accommodations where the lease was signed by a new tenant after a
vacancy, where the amount changed to and paid by the prior tenant was
less than the registered rent; (xii) the number of rent overcharge
complaints processed by the division; (xiii) the number of final
overcharge orders granting an overcharge; (xiv) the number of

investigations commenced by the tenant protection unit, the aggregate
number of rent stabilized or rent controlled housing accommodations in
each county that were the subject of such investigations, and the
dispositions of such investigations. At the time the report is due, the
commissioner shall make available to the governor, the temporary
president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and shall make
publicly available, and on its website in machine readable format, the
data used to tabulate the figures required to be included in the report,
taking any steps necessary to protect confidential information regarding
ongoing investigations, individual buildings, housing accommodations,
property owners, and tenants.