Majority Whip Hanks on lien sale cancellation and six-month review timeline
Council Member Kamillah Hanks asks about the timeline for the administration's review of tax lien sale enforcement. Commissioner Lee says the six-month review ends this summer and the administration is ready to work with the council on creating a land bank, with board nominees due July 28th.
Thank you, Chair.
What's up?
Hello.
Did you miss us?
I did.
Okay.
Always.
I know.
It's so true.
So did we talk about lien sale cancellation a little bit?
Okay.
I'm going to ask it anyway.
The administration canceled lien sale this year pending a six-month review and potential reform to how the city enforces property taxes and water bills.
Can you provide a timeline of when we can expect to hear?
What the new tax enforcement would look like?
So the mayor has made it clear that this administration's priority is to stabilize and protect housing and to minimize displacement.
We are taking this commitment seriously as we consider how to enforce the collection of outstanding property taxes
while making sure that we're holding accountable for those individuals to make sure that they're paying and doing everything that we can to address and reach out to those homeowners that are at risk ahead of a lien sale.
Right now we are undergoing a comprehensive review.
It is a six-month review on the current lien sale outreach and sale process as a whole in order to evaluate how to, essentially like how is enforcement could look like in this.
New era.
It's a six-month review that ends this summer, and we're looking forward to discussions with the council and other partners as we move forward.
I would say that with the reform package that passed earlier this year, we're ready to work with the council on the creation of the land bank, and we're getting prepared to put in our nominees for the working group for this new land bank board,
which I believe is due on July 28th.
Let's hope that that's a five borough task force.
I hope so too.
Yeah, me too.