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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Enacts the \"Housing Our Neighbors with Dignity act\""
+description: "Enacts the \"Housing Our Neighbors with Dignity act\" in order to provide a mechanism for the state to finance the acquisition of distressed hotels and commercial office properties by the appropriate nonprofit organizations for the purpose of maintaining or increasing affordable housing."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2021-2022"
+identifier: "S 5257"
+citation: "New York S 5257 (2021-2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["GIANARIS"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2021-03-01"
+last_action: "2021-08-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a72cc214-8d6f-48a4-a633-bb424afe88fe"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S5257"
+source_hash: "bb70da9b7dee1a3fcc683440470c87c5a48d446e642bf1ee7a75cdd91e88a610"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York S 5257 (2021-2022) — Enacts the "Housing Our Neighbors with Dignity act"
+
+Enacts the "Housing Our Neighbors with Dignity act" in order to provide a mechanism for the state to finance the acquisition of distressed hotels and commercial office properties by the appropriate nonprofit organizations for the purpose of maintaining or increasing affordable housing.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S5257** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5257&term=2021&Text=Y)
+2. **S5257A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2021/S5257A)
+3. **S5257B** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2021/S5257B)
+4. **S5257C** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2021/S5257C)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Housing, Construction And Community Development Vote — **9–2** (pass) · upper
+- Assembly Vote — **146–2** (pass) · lower
+- Rules Vote - Version: C — **16–5** (pass) · upper
+- Floor Vote - Version: C — **49–14** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- GIANARIS — primary (person)
+- BIAGGI — cosponsor (person)
+- BRISPORT — cosponsor (person)
+- BROUK — cosponsor (person)
+- JACKSON — cosponsor (person)
+- KAVANAGH — cosponsor (person)
+- MYRIE — cosponsor (person)
+- RIVERA — cosponsor (person)
+- SALAZAR — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-01** REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-18** REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-18** AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE `amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-18** PRINT NUMBER 5257A `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-05-25** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE `amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-25** PRINT NUMBER 5257B `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-06-06** AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE `amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-06** PRINT NUMBER 5257C `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-06-08** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-08** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1642
+- **2021-06-09** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2021-06-09** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2021-06-10** REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-09** SUBSTITUTED FOR A6593B
+- **2021-06-09** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.721
+- **2021-06-09** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2021-06-09** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2021-08-02** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-08-13** SIGNED CHAP.396 `executive-signature`
+- **2021-08-13** APPROVAL MEMO.17
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a72cc214-8d6f-48a4-a633-bb424afe88fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
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