SocketSite reports on a proposed law that would alter the current priority in new affordable housing developments in the City. Currently, affordable housing preference operates on a lottery, which gives preference to, e.g., tenants who were recently evicted pursuant to the Ellis Act.
The new law would expand priority to tenants displaced by other non-fault evictions (as opposed to singling out the Ellis Act), and it would give priority in the neighborhoods from which the tenant was displaced.
