A former NYCHA employee sued NYCHA for sex discrimination and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the NY State Human Rights Law, and the NYC Human Rights Law. The court granted...
Apartment tenants sued landlord in 2021, claiming discrimination and retaliation based on race or sexual orientation in violation of the NY State Human Rights Law. Tenants were a gay male couple; one was Black, the...
A co-op apartment occupant lived in the apartment for 13 years with her "long-time romantic partner," who was the shareholder-tenant of the unit and who left the apartment to the occupant in his will. After...
In September 2023, after obtaining information that landlord continued to seek a landlord-tenant court date in screening applicants for residential housing after passage of the tenant blacklisting law, the NY...
Potential tenant, a domestic violence survivor who was staying at a shelter with her child, had no current income but had a FHEPS program voucher that would pay 100 percent of her rent. She applied to landlord for...
A proprietary lessee in a co-op building filed a housing discrimination complaint with HUD. The tenant kept a series of parrots in her apartment and in 2015 acquired a new parrot that neighbors complained was...
Tenant sued landlord for disability discrimination, seeking a reasonable accommodation for a claimed disability. Tenant claimed that he had multiple physical disabilities, including chronic back pain, arthritis, and...
A legal representative sued landlord on behalf of a homeless shelter resident based on lawful source of income discrimination. The shelter resident had received a housing voucher from the city. Landlords asked the...
Prospective tenants sued HPD and related landlords in federal court, claiming that landlord discriminated against them in connection with two affordable housing applications, in violation of the Fair Housing Act, the...
CityVision, a nonprofit organization that tests whether housing facilities engage in discrimination by having their agents pose as prospective tenants, placed a test call to landlord in 2016 seeking to rent an...
A disabled, wheelchair-bound tenant living in a HUD-subsidized apartment sued landlord and HUD, claiming failure to maintain his apartment so as to accommodate the vision-impaired tenant and to provide for wheelchair...
A prospective tenant, who was eligible for housing vouchers through a NYC HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) program, applied to rent an apartment. In response, landlord's real estate agent advised the...
