Establishes an office to oversee compliance with fair share mandates for siting homeless shelters in New York.
The bill creates an office of fair share enforcement within the Department of Social Services to oversee compliance with fair share mandates for siting homeless shelters. It mandates that municipalities and community districts with populations over 50,000 provide shelter capacity proportional to their homeless population. The office will monitor shelter distribution, enforce compliance, review siting decisions, and ensure public transparency by maintaining a database of shelter locations and capacities. Municipalities must submit annual compliance reports.
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