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Why this seat

S.71 is the only live bill that would license the people who manage New York's co-ops and condos — a bill whose lineage his office has carried across nine legislative sessions since 2009 without a floor vote. Senator Kavanagh announced in February 2026 that he is not seeking re-election; his term ends December 31, 2026. When it does, the bill loses its only sponsor: it has zero co-sponsors and no Assembly companion since 2014.

What the seat could bring

As the bill's sponsor and the Housing Committee chair, his office holds the institutional memory of the licensure effort — and the standing to say, before January, who should carry it next.

What we sent

• July 2, 2026: A 17-page briefing: subdivision-by-subdivision coverage-and-gap analysis of S.71 (thirteen documented gaps with recommended amendment language), the public-record evidence base behind it, and a direct question — who should carry this bill in 2027?

Status

Awaiting response.

Why this seat

Hers is the one desk in Albany where the three live pieces of condo/co-op governance reform already sit together: she sponsors the ombudsperson bill (where residents would go), she sponsors the transparency bill now in Rules (what boards must show), and she serves on the Judiciary Committee, where the licensure bill S.71 (who is qualified to manage) has been parked since January 2025.

What the seat could bring

S.8912 is the furthest-advanced bill in the package — reported from the Corporations Committee on May 19, 2026. A senator who already carries two legs of the architecture is positioned to see the third leg's succession problem, and sits on the committee where it waits.

What we sent

• July 3, 2026: A 6-page briefing: how S.71, S.8912, and S.7745 read together as one regulatory architecture (Nevada and Florida run the paired model); the January succession problem; and an offer of implementation-design data for the ombudsperson program's complaint universe.

Status

Awaiting response.

Why this seat

Her district holds 276 registered condo and co-op buildings — 21,232 homes, most of the city's newest condominium stock — and The Real Deal reported that Council members forming a Co-op & Condo Caucus anticipate her as a member. A caucus with the reported priorities (affordable homeownership, equitable Local Law 97 implementation) would need exactly the building-level evidence base we publish.

What the seat could bring

If the reported caucus forms, its members will decide whether it works from citywide averages or from building-level records. Her district's profile is already live, so that choice is concrete: the data exists.

What we sent

• May 14, 2026: A district briefing to her housing and land-use staff. No response after seven weeks.
• July 3, 2026: A 5-page memorandum to her office: the caucus-ready data layer, her district's live profile, and an offer of a district profile for every caucus member plus a thirty-minute staff walk-through.
• July 31, 2026: An introduction connecting her office with the Legislative Director for Assembly Member Keith Powers, so the city and state work on co-op and condo governance can be compared across chambers. No ask was attached.

Status

Her office replied July 6, 2026, clarifying that no Co-op & Condo Caucus exists at the Council and indicating it would refer the materials to its Housing and Land Use Director for review. Listing this reply implies no endorsement. The absence of any such caucus is the subject of our case at /caucus/.

District profile: /districts/council-26/

Why this seat

His district contains Co-op City — the largest cooperative housing development in the United States, 10,914 homes on a single tax lot, 81.3% of the district's condo/co-op homes. No citywide average can describe a district shaped like that, which makes it the sharpest case in the city for building-level governance data. He also chairs Land Use and sits on Housing and Buildings, the committee of jurisdiction for the enforcement record we publish.

What the seat could bring

A Land Use chair whose district is one cooperative's scale problem is positioned to make Local Law 97 equity — one of the reported caucus's two priorities — concrete rather than rhetorical.

What we sent

• July 3, 2026: A 5-page memorandum: his district's live profile, the Co-op City scale analysis, and the same standing offer — a profile for every caucus member, a thirty-minute walk-through, and the issue catalog as committee-memo raw material.

Status

Awaiting response.

District profile: /districts/council-12/

Why this seat

NY-13 was our first district profile: 1,051 registered condos and co-ops, 59,611 homes, and the heaviest enforcement record of any district we have profiled. Whoever represents the district in 2027 inherits that record. We sent the nominee the profile so the housing-governance baseline is on the table before the seat is.

What the seat could bring

A House member from NY-13 sits closest to the largest concentration of distressed co-op stock in our data — and federal levers (HUD, FHFA-adjacent finance policy) shape what state licensure cannot reach.

What we sent

• July 3, 2026: The NY-13 district profile — every registered condo and co-op in the district placed inside the official Census boundary and joined to the city's enforcement records — with a briefing whose asks are expressly post-November.

Status

Awaiting response. The same materials are available, on request, to any candidate or officeholder for a profiled district — including the district's incumbent.

District profile: /districts/ny-13/

Why this seat

NY-10 is the largest district universe we have profiled: 3,553 registered condos and co-ops, 109,417 homes, from Lower Manhattan through the brownstone-Brooklyn belt. As Comptroller, his office audited the same housing agencies this record draws on — including the February 2025 audit finding that only 16% of the 126 buildings the city targeted for co-op conversion since 2012 actually became co-ops. The district profile is, in a specific sense, the civilian continuation of that audit lane.

What the seat could bring

A House member with an auditor's record sits closest to the federal levers state licensure cannot reach — HUD's condo-approval and inspection authority, and the ownership-transparency rules that were narrowed or vacated in 2025–26. No member of New York's congressional delegation currently owns this issue.

What we sent

• July 3, 2026: A 7-page briefing pairing the live NY-10 district profile — every registered condo and co-op joined to the city's enforcement records — with the audit-continuity record and a one-page appendix on the federal levers. Asks are expressly post-November.

Status

Awaiting response. The campaign publishes no email address; we wrote to the one address in its own published privacy policy, with a routing note asking to be forwarded to the right inbox. The same materials are available, on request, to any candidate or officeholder for a profiled district — including the district's incumbent.

District profile: /districts/ny-10/

Why this seat

She wrote the law that starts running on July 28: a fifteen-day acknowledgment clock and a forty-five-day decision clock for every purchase application at a cooperative of ten or more units. A disclosure law is only as strong as the public's ability to see which buildings it covers and how it is working — and that covered universe is exactly what a public registry can name: 4,034 co-ops of ten-plus units citywide, all 41 of them in District 18.

What the seat could bring

The sponsor of a transparency law is positioned to make its first year of implementation a public record rather than a set of anecdotes. The building-level data layer gives that record a floor.

What we sent

• July 4, 2026: A 4-page briefing: the Local-Law-58 covered-building universe, her district's live profile, and a standing implementation offer — the covered-building list, a resident-facing explainer of the new timelines, and a public intake surface for the law's first year.

Status

Awaiting response.

District profile: /districts/council-18/

Why this seat

The managing-agent licensure bill — the only measure that would license the people who run New York's co-ops and condos — has had no Assembly sponsor since 2014. He is the only sitting member of the Assembly who ever put his name on it. Its Senate version, S.71, is in its ninth session since 2009 and loses its only sponsor when Senator Kavanagh retires in January; whether the lineage continues in 2027 depends on someone in the Assembly picking it up.

What the seat could bring

A member who already co-sponsored the exact bill twice can reintroduce the Assembly companion without starting from a cold position — and the complete gap-and-amendment analysis prepared for the Senate sponsor transfers to whoever carries it.

What we sent

• July 4, 2026: A 4-page briefing: the bill's seventeen-year lineage, his own 2011 and 2013 co-sponsorships, the January succession problem, and a direct ask — would he consider being the Assembly sponsor again in 2027?

Status

Awaiting response.

District profile: /districts/assembly-24/

Why this seat

In the Council he wrote the facade-inspection reform that takes effect this October. That reform tightened a regime that already had a floor — the engineers who inspect a building's exterior are licensed professionals. One desk over sits the gap: the manager who hires those engineers, runs the assessment that funds the repairs, and holds the operating account answers to no license, no registry, and no disciplinary body in New York law. He knows the building-safety file from the inside.

What the seat could bring

A legislator who already carried facade-safety reform is positioned to carry the licensure companion S.71 has lacked since 2014 — the same bill that loses its Senate sponsor to retirement in January.

What we sent

• July 4, 2026: A 4-page briefing: the facade-to-manager regulatory bridge, his own Int. 394-A as the precedent, his district's live profile (the largest condo/co-op stock of any we have mapped), and an ask to consider carrying the Assembly companion to S.71 in 2027.
• July 23, 2026: Research on the Assembly companion's lineage, provided at the office's request: the last Assembly version was A.2110-A in the 2013–2014 session, carrying the same Article 12-D of the Real Property Law that S.71 carries now. Its Assembly sponsor was Brian Kavanagh; when he moved to the Senate the bill went with him and became the S.71 line, and the Assembly half was not picked back up. The seat has been vacant since 2014 for a structural reason, a sponsor changing chambers, rather than a vote on the merits.
• July 31, 2026: District figures for AD-74 and for AD-24 (David Weprin, a co-sponsor of A.2110-A who is still in the house), plus a standing offer of the same figures for any district, and an introduction to Council Member Julie Won's office on the cross-chamber question.

Status

The office's Legislative Director requested a call on July 7, 2026 and met with us by video on July 9. Correspondence has continued since. Recording that contact states nothing about the office's position and implies no endorsement, commitment, or coordination; we do not publish the substance of what the office says to us.

District profile: /districts/assembly-74/

Why this seat

She chairs the committee of jurisdiction for the agencies whose records this project publishes — HPD, DOB, and the facade-inspection program. Her district carries the heaviest enforcement share of any we have profiled: 108 of its 133 registered condo and co-op buildings (81.2%) carry at least one open immediately-hazardous violation. Oversight of that record is her committee's work, and the building-level evidence layer it would rest on is exactly what we publish.

What the seat could bring

A committee chair sets the hearing calendar. The data layer gives any oversight hearing on condo/co-op governance a building-level factual floor it does not otherwise have — and no active city Introduction currently addresses the managing-agent licensure gap.

What we sent

• July 4, 2026: A 4-page briefing: the free oversight data layer (district cuts, agent-level records, building-level enforcement histories), her district's live profile, and the structural fact that New York licenses none of the people who manage these buildings.
• July 31, 2026: A letter to the Chair: that the city now has a Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants, revived by Executive Order 03 with the standing to press HPD, DOB and DCWP on renters' cases, and no counterpart of any kind for owner-occupants; that Block by Block reaches this housing only through Open Door, which finances newly built units rather than governing existing ones; and District 14's own record of 133 buildings, 8,362 homes, and 2,576 open immediately-hazardous violations. Two asks: that the Committee consider an oversight hearing on governance in owner-occupied multifamily housing, and a staff meeting.
• July 31, 2026: The meeting request re-routed to the district scheduling address, as the office's automated reply directs.

Status

An automated reply on July 31, 2026 routed the message to the office's subject-specific inboxes. An autoreply is not a response, and nothing here implies a position by the office. Awaiting a substantive reply.

District profile: /districts/council-14/

Why this seat

This is the letter that started it. Written by a pro se litigant and unit owner who had spent close to a year in court because no city or state agency handles condominium and cooperative governance disputes, it laid out in plain terms a gap the rest of this record now documents building by building. It reached City Hall months before the district profiles or the legislative briefings existed.

What the seat could bring

An executive can move where the legislature stalls. A mayor can create a condominium and cooperative governance and intake office by executive order without waiting for Albany — and can put mayoral weight behind the one state bill, S.71, that would license the people who manage these buildings.

What we sent

• April 5, 2026: A letter to the Mayor proposing six reforms: an executive-order condominium and cooperative governance unit; state legislation for a permanent co-op/condo ombudsman; a city intake-and-referral office (HPD or DCWP); mandatory board-member education; standardized financial-transparency requirements; and mandatory pre-suit mediation for governance disputes.

Status

Awaiting response.