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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

multiple dwelling registrations, document searches, administrative costs, and the management of municipal and Mitchell-Lama loans. Revenues generated by the agency will be $85.2 million in 2002, $21.1 million more than the amount for 2001. the 2002 increase is primarily attributable to non-recurring revenue from negotiated land sales offset by the one-time collection of fees in 2001 from various programs. Additional decreases reflect reductions in in rem rental income due to the disposition of in rem units to the private sector.

Expense Budget Highlights r ' ' ■ ' Priorities: Providing Core Services

The agency maintains core services in in rem property management, tenant-landlord assistance, housing maintenance .code Enforcement, development of new affordable housing, and preservation of privately-owned housing. !

• Funding is’maintained for HPD’s’Emergency Repair Isogram (ERP) to remove hazardous conditions in private buildings where landlords have been negligent in correcting violations detrimental to the life, health or safety of tenants.

• In an effort to expedite permanent placements for families who have been evacuated from their homes due to fire, demolition or unsafe building conditions, $3 million has been added to HPD’s emergency services bufeau expense budget in 2002. This homeless diversion program will assist families, temporarily housed in HPD shelters, to reclaim their original apartments or to find alternate apartments in public housing or in the private market.

• In an effort to reduce future management costs and to improve the quality of occupied in rem housing, $175 million is allocated in the capital budget for the agency’s disposition programs in 2()()2. HPD has developed programmatic and financial mechanisms to accelerate the transfer of City-owned occupied buildings to tenants and neighborhood-based not-for-profit and for-profit housing organizations. These programs are Tenant Interim Lease (TIL), Neighborhood Entrepreneurs (NEP), Neighborhood Redevelopment (NRP) and Neighborhood Homes.

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