Establishes the rural housing workforce corps to address rural housing shortages by expanding construction capacity, training a local workforce, and supporting the development of modest, year round housing units in rural New York state.
Relates to creating annual reporting obligations by municipal housing authorities to the authorities budget office with respect to state-funded activities of such municipal housing authorities.
Establishes a former foster youth priority program that reserves at least five percent of units in housing lotteries that are administered by the New York city department of housing preservation and development or the New York city housing development corporation for eligible former foster youth; authorizes the promulgation of rules, regulations and marketing handbooks and procedural guidelines; establishes reporting requirements.
Authorizes funeral directing apprenticeships as an alternative to licensing examinations; requires such apprenticeships to be four-year programs led by licensing funeral directors; makes related provisions.
Establishes the "jobs and housing act"; directs the private housing finance agency to develop and administer a jobs and housing pilot program to construct and preserve housing, including workforce housing, that is affordable to low and moderate income persons, and creates jobs for those who build and work in such housing.