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What is NYC AC § 21-308?

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This section mandates the commissioner to submit a Five-Year Plan to Relieve Homelessness to the city council speaker. The plan includes projections for homeless individuals, budgets for programs, and the construction or rehabilitation of facilities and housing units. Applies to city officials involved in homelessness planning and management.

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§ 21-308 Five-year plan to relieve homelessness.

AC § 21-308

1.The commissioner shall submit to the speaker of the city council a Five-Year Plan to Relieve Homelessness, including but not limited to the following: a. Projected numbers of homeless individuals and families. b. Projected expense and capital budgets for the department, including, but not limited to expenditures for homeless individual and homeless family programs, facilities and services. c. Projected number of facilities to be constructed or rehabilitated to accommodate homeless individuals and families. d. Projected number of permanent housing units to be constructed or rehabilitated to accommodate homeless individuals and families.

2.a. The Five-Year Plan shall be reviewed and updated by the commissioner each year, and the updated version thereof shall be submitted to the speaker of the city council not later than October first of each year. b. In the fifth year covered by each such Five-Year Plan, the commissioner shall submit a Five-Year Plan to Relieve Homelessness for the next succeeding five-year period not later than six months prior to the last day of such fifth year to the speaker of the city council. Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1993/051 and L.L. 1995/075.

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