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17meetings

17 meetings listed from Oct 24, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026; 13 transcribed, the newest on Sep 24, 2026, including 2 joint hearings, for at least 33 hours.

8 members seated · Chair: Pierina Ana Sanchez

What the members said

55:45
What targeted outreach and technical assistance is HPD providing to landlords in high-poverty communities of color before they reach the distress threshold so TPT is truly a last resort and not the first response?Yusef SalaamMember · Committee on Housing and Buildings · Mar 9, 2026Open the meeting at 55:45
  • 1:02:20
    ICE and immigration enforcementWhen HPD go on site and they find, let’s say, ICE agent, what is the protocol?Rita C. JosephMember · Committee on Housing and Buildings · Apr 20, 2026Open the meeting at 1:02:20
  • 1:35:04
    Is there a number of units the administration sees as at risk of conversion to illegal hotel-type use as a result of the amended legislation? What analysis has the administration done on how allowing unhosted short-term rentals in the stock could increase rents and displacement for those tenants?Pierina Ana SanchezChair · Committee on Housing and Buildings · Nov 20, 2025Open the meeting at 1:35:04

The talk-time ranking for the Committee on Housing and Buildings is held

60% of members’ talk time is identified; members are compared from 60% (preliminary under 80%). Each member’s page has their clips and meetings. The minutes below count only speech we named by voice, so they are floors, not a ranking.

Every member, with roll calls and clips

Latest meetings

  • Nov 251
  • Dec 253
  • Jan 261
  • Feb 261
  • Mar 262
  • Apr 261
  • Jun 262
  • Jul 261
  • Aug 261
  • Sep 262
  • Oct 262
13 of 17 meetings transcribed, Oct 24, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026.Newest: Oct 22, 2026
Committee on Housing and Buildings · at least 11 min · 0 public speakersSep 24 · This bill would extend the J-51 tax abatement for certain alterations or improvements to include projects completed on or after June 30 took 10 minThe longest item after routine business: This bill would extend the J-51 tax abatement for certain alterations or improvements…, 10 min of this at least 11 min meeting.Speakers: Pierina Ana Sanchez
Longest item: 97% of the meeting1 agenda itemsWatch
Committee on Housing and Buildings · at least 6 h 38 min · 69 public speakersSep 9 · Committee meeting69 people spoke in public comment, one of the five biggest crowds in New York in 12 months.Speakers: Pierina Ana Sanchez, Carl Wilson, Kevin C. Riley, Rita C. Joseph
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Committee on Housing and Buildings · 0 public speakersAug 13 · Committee meetingThe result was announced as "With a vote of 9 in the affirmative, 0 in the negative, and 1 abstention, item has been approved by the committee."Speakers: Pierina Ana Sanchez
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Committee on Finance · at least 3 h 18 min · 11 public speakersJul 15 · Joint hearingSpeakers: Linda Lee, Shirley Aldebol, Justin E. Sanchez, Crystal Hudson
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All 13 transcribed meetings

4 more meetings are not transcribed yet.

Listed after the newest meeting above, not transcribed yet (video listings through Oct 22): 2

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Housing and tenants took 77% of the Committee on Housing and Buildings’ meeting time, more than at most bodies in the city

Share of meeting time by topic, from the transcript · 10 meetings, 29 hours · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026

Housing and tenants77%
Development and land use6.7%

bar = share of meeting time · line = 90% range · tick = typical New York body (shown where it is 0.5% or more)

17 public speakers a meeting; the biggest crowd, 69, came on Sep 9, 2026

Sep 9, 202669 speakersNov 20, 202549 speakersDec 2, 2025The Committee on Housing and Buildings opened a hearing on oversight of anti-discrimination laws in co-op and condo housing and on Intros 407A, 438, 1120A and 1475.39 speakersMar 24, 2026The Committee on Housing and Buildings opened its hearing on the fiscal 2027 preliminary budget for the Department of Buildings and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.28 speakersApr 20, 2026Staff from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development testified on Intro 839 and the Certificate of No Harassment pilot program, after the oath was administered.14 speakers

bar = public speakers at that meeting · tick = average meeting