Housing Rights
Initiative

Housing Rights Initiative (HRI) is a national non-profit watchdog group that investigates real estate fraud, connects tenants to legal services, and promotes tenants' rights to fair and affordable housing.

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10,800,000

Renters in the United States are extremely low income.

2,500,000

Tenants in New York City live in rent stabilized apartments.

2,300,000

Households in the United States use Housing Choice Vouchers.

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Their Landlord Overcharged Them. Now Tenants Will Split $15 Million.

NYTIMES: Blackstone is paying some NYC renters more than $100000 each to resolve claims that they had been overcharged for their apartments.

Landlords Inflated Rents While Receiving 421a Tax Breaks, Lawsuits Allege

The owners of three buildings in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens are accused in the suits of falsely registering initial rents with the...

Apartment firms agree to housing voucher policies to settle bias suit

The 23 New York landlords and apartment brokers were among 88 accused of routinely turning away Section 8 applicants