Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) promotes the quality and affordability of the city's housing and the strength of its many neighborhoods. HPD is responsible for carrying out the Mayors plan to build or preserve 300,000 affordability.
HPD Anti- Harassment laws prohibit building owners from illegally forcing tenants to leave their apartments or surrender their rights through unjustified eviction notices or illegal lockouts. HPD provides information on seeking legal help and low-income tenants are eligible for free legal services.
Local Law 4 of 2012, requires HPD to maintain on its website monthly and quarterly reports which can be viewed by the general public The report lists properties of 20 or more units for which a notice of foreclosure has been submitted,.
Agency biennial report for due in connection with the collection, disclosure, and retention of identifying information and agency privacy practices and submitted to the Chief Privacy Officer, the Mayor, the City Council Speaker, and the Citywide Privacy Protection Committee.
The Alternative Enforcement Program (AEP) is a New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) enforcement program for apartment buildings that have many housing maintenance code violations.
A report on the agency's efforts during the previous quarter to implement the plan adopted pursuant to paragraph nineteen (annual plan) of Section 815(a),including details of agency's efforts to implement equal employment practices, including statistical information regarding total employment, including provisional, seasonal, per-diem and part-time employees, new hiring and promotions in a manner which facilitates understanding of an agency's efforts to provide fair and effective equal opportunity employment for minority group members, women and members of other groups who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies
Report including 1. the number of covered buildings where the owner applied for a certificate of no harassment disaggregated by whether the department issued a certificate of no harassment, a cure agreement was reached, or a waiver of a certificate of no harassment; 2. the location of buildings where the department determined that harassment had occurred, disaggregated by community board and council district disaggregated by whether such building was subject to a cure agreement; 3. metrics which the department determines appropriate to determine the preventive impacts of such program; 4. a determination, using such metrics, as to whether such program resulted in preventive impacts; 5. estimated costs of the program to the city; and 6. recommendations for improving the efficacy of such program if the pilot program continues
Lenders must notify HPD within fifteen days when they begin or discontinue a mortgage foreclosure action against any residential property in New York City. Notification is required when lenders receive a judgment in a foreclosure action; sell the foreclosed property; or if a receiver is appointed
Local Law 4/2012 requires HPD to maintain on its website a monthly report of a list of properties with 20 or more units for which a notice of foreclosure has been submitted to HPD They are identified by block and lot number with identity of mortgagee plaintiffs and includes all pending foreclosures.