🔴 LIVE: The Committee on Housing and Building's Preliminary Budget Hearing

New York City Council Committee on Housing and Buildings · March 24, 2026

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Committee staff opened the March 24 hearing, reviewed decorum and public testimony procedures and Chair Birina Sanchez announced the Committee's focus on the DOB and HPD preliminary FY27 budgets, and outlined the hearing schedule.

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The New York City Council Committee on Housing and Buildings held a March 24 hearing on the FY27 preliminary budgets for the Department of Buildings (DOB) and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). DOB Commissioner Ahmed Tigani and HPD leadership testified on staffing, enforcement, Local Law 97 implementation, sidewalk sheds, plan-review delays, preservation and homelessness response; community groups then urged funding for preservation, tenant legal services, property-management pilots and community land trusts.

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