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...
Tenant sued landlord for disability discrimination. She claimed that landlord violated the NYC Human Rights Law, which required landlord to make reasonable accommodations to the needs of persons with disabilities,...
Plaintiff, a nonprofit housing group, sued real estate agents, brokerage firms, property management companies, and property owners, claiming intentional and willful source of income discrimination in violation of New...
On May 26, 2023, NYC Mayor Adams signed into law a City Council bill amending the NYC Human Rights Law to add perceived height and weight to the city's long list of classes protected from discrimination. Among...
