Apartment occupant complained to the NY State Division of Human Rights (DHR) of discrimination by landlord NYU after landlord refused to offer him a vacancy lease. The DHR ruled against occupant, finding no...
Rent-stabilized tenants, who were black and the sole remaining occupants of landlord's 23-unit apartment building, sued landlord and the FDNY, claiming a hostile housing environment in violation of the Fair...
Landlord cooperative corporation sued shareholder tenant for violating her proprietary lease by keeping eight dogs and two cats in her apartment. This created noise and odors that other residents complained about....
Tenant sued landlord for disability discrimination in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act. Tenants lived in a ground-floor unit in an apartment complex. Based on multiple disabilities, tenant used a motorized...
Tenant filed a complaint against landlord with the NY State Division of Human Rights (NYSDHR), claiming discrimination based on race. Tenant said that landlord told her she would have to move out because there were...
Rent-stabilized tenant and the NY State Division of Human Rights (DHR) sued landlord for disability discrimination. They claimed this was based on landlord's denial of tenant's request for a reasonable...
Prospective tenant applied for an apartment from landlord, who rejected her application because she couldn't pay a cash security deposit. Tenant claimed that she had a security deposit voucher from HRA. Claiming...
Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for using, or permitting the use of, her apartment for illegal activity. Landlord claimed that drugs were sold from the apartment. Tenant claimed that she didn't know...
Tenant sued the YWCA, which received federal funding to provide supportive housing to tenant in landlord's building. After tenant was evicted, tenant claimed housing discrimination by the YWCA under the Fair...
Landlord sued to evict tenant, a mentally and physically disabled resident of a housing facility in a state- and city-funded Supported Apartments Program, for nonpayment of rent. Tenant then sued landlord in federal...
Landlord cooperative corporation filed an Article 78 appeal of a decision by the NY State Human Rights Division that it unlawfully discriminated against tenant on the basis of disability by not allowing her to keep...
Tenant sued landlord, its real estate broker, and other individual agents for discrimination based on lawful source of income, in violation of the NYC Human Rights Law. Tenant asked the court to decide the case in...
