a. No later than September 1, 2021 and on September 1 of each third year thereafter, the department shall submit to the mayor and the council, and publicly post on its website, a report on each lottery for affordable housing units that was administered by or on behalf of the department during the prior three fiscal years, provided that each affordable housing unit available through each such lottery was leased or purchased.
b. The data in such report shall be presented at the citywide, borough and community district levels, with aggregated totals for each of the paragraphs in subdivision d, except that the data responsive to the inquiry specified in paragraph 4 of subdivision d shall be aggregated only at the borough level, and the data responsive to the inquiry specified in subdivision d-1 shall be presented as otherwise provided in subdivision d-1. For each required geographic level, data responsive to the inquiries specified in subdivision d shall be disaggregated by the following items:
1. Applicant household size; and
2. Applicant household income, broken down into bands of extremely low income households, very low income households, low income households, moderate income households and middle income households.
c. Data responsive to the inquiries specified in subdivision d shall be disaggregated at the citywide and borough levels by each of the following items, except that data responsive to the inquiry specified in paragraph 4 of subdivision d shall be disaggregated only at the borough level:
1. Race or ethnicity of applicants, to the extent such information is reported to the department; and
2. Applicant preference category, such as veteran's preference, if any (listing "none" otherwise).
d. As described in subdivisions b and c, data for applicants who had applied through the housing lottery system for affordable housing units shall be provided for each of the following:
1. The number of applications received for affordable housing units;
2. The number of applicants invited to confirm their eligibility for affordable housing units;
3. The number of applicants selected for affordable housing units;
4. The number of applicants who signed leases for affordable housing units; and
5. The number of applicants who were selected for, but declined to sign a lease for, affordable housing units.
d-1. In addition to the data provided pursuant to subdivisions b, c and d, the report required by this section shall also include the following data for applicants with a mobility, or vision or hearing, disability who applied through the housing lottery system for affordable housing:
1. Data responsive to the inquiry specified in paragraph 1 of subdivision d, disaggregated at the citywide and borough levels by disability status; and
2. The number of applicants with a mobility, or vision or hearing, disability who signed a lease for an affordable housing unit that is designated as accessible for a person with such disability, disaggregated only at the borough level.
e. The initial report submitted on September 1, 2021 shall include the information required by subdivisions b and c for all of the inquiries specified in subdivision d for the period from July 1, 2020 until June 30, 2021, where available, and shall also include the information required by subdivisions b and c for the inquiries specified in paragraphs 1 and 4 of subdivision d for the period from January 1, 2014 until June 30, 2020.
f. If a category disaggregated in subdivisions b, c, d, or d-1 contains between 0 and 9 applicants, or allows another category to be narrowed to between 0 and 9 applicants, the number shall be replaced with a symbol.
(L.L. 2019/217, 12/15/2019, eff. 12/15/2019; Am. L.L. 2023/025, 2/21/2023, eff. 2/21/2023)