Shareholder-tenant filed a complaint against landlord cooperative corporation with the New York State Division of Human Rights (DHR) for discrimination. Tenant claimed that landlord should have given her an...
Tenant’s wife sued HPD, claiming that HPD denied her due process, discriminated against her on the basis of her sex, and acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner contrary to federal and local law by denying...
Tenant filed an Article 78 appeal of NYCHA’s decision to terminate her Section 8 rent subsidy. The court ruled against tenant. Tenant failed to act reasonably in response to NYCHA’s attempts to...
Tenant sued landlord, claiming that landlord terminated her tenancy due to tenant’s service dog, in violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA). The court ruled against tenant because he didn’t state facts...
Disabled tenants used two parking spaces at a Yonkers building for 13 years until landlord denied their use of one space so that it could provide parking to another tenant. Tenants sued landlord, seeking a reasonable...
Prospective tenant, a 68-year-old disabled Vietnam veteran, received benefits under HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH). Tenant sued HUD, HUD-VASH, and landlord after landlord rejected his application...
Eight disabled New York City tenants enrolled in, or eligible for enrollment in, NYC’s Disability Rent Increase Exemption (DRIE) program sued the Department of Finance (DOF), claiming that DOF administered the...
The federal government sued Westchester County for falsely certifying to HUD that it was meeting commitments to affirmatively further fair housing. The federal Department of Justice and the county signed a...
Tenant in upstate two-family house sued landlord, claiming that landlord discriminated against him. Tenant was an army veteran diagnosed with PTSD who got a service dog as part of his treatment plan after renting the...
Relatives of four tenants killed in a 2009 fire in a building in a poor neighborhood brought a civil rights lawsuit against the City of Utica. They claimed that their constitutional right to equal protection occurred...
