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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

Bronx tenants who said landlord cheated them out of rent control apartments score $1M settlement

Noah Goldberg December 5th, 2021 A Bronx landlord accused of cheating tenants out of years of discounted rent must cough up $1 million to...

‘She Wants Well-Qualified People’: 88 Landlords Accused of Housing Bias (New York Times)

Matthew Haag March 15, 2021 The caller was a woman looking to move with her boyfriend into a studio apartment on the Upper East Side of...

Despite efforts on fair housing, Westchester dogged by discrimination (The Journal News)

Michael Sutherland, Research & Policy Associate at Housing Rights Initiative April 15, 2021 Even after a lengthy legal battle to protect...

Following investigation, HRI organizes 59-plaintiff class action lawsuit (Wall Street Journal)

Laura Kusisto April 18, 2017 1:20 p.m. ET A group of about 60 apartment tenants is suing one of New York City’s largest landlords,...

Following investigation, HRI organizes 68-plaintiff class action lawsuit (Wall Street Journal)

By Mara Gay Oct. 18, 2016 6:32 p.m. ET A real-estate firm that received a $100 million tax break from Mayor Bill de Blasio’s...

Mayor de Blasio weighs in on tenant class-action lawsuit organized by Housing Rights Initiative

By Sally Goldenberg 10/19/2016 05:27 PM EDT Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office said a class-action lawsuit filed this week against a...

HRI orchestrates class action lawsuit against predatory landlord (The New York Daily News)

EXCLUSIVE: Harlem tenants accuse landlord of illegally hiking up rent in over 20 buildings in class action lawsuit By Kerry Burke and...

HRI orchestrates 29-plaintiff class action lawsuit (The Real Deal)

Harlem landlord Big City Realty cheated rent-stabilized tenants, lawsuit claims Investigation by pro-tenant group says firm handed out...

Following investigation, HRI organizes 12-plaintiff lawsuit (DNAinfo)

HUDSON HEIGHTS — A group of tenants living in a building on West 180th Street are accusing their landlord of a “fraudulent scheme to...

Following investigation, HRI organizes 12-plaintiff lawsuit (The Real Deal)

Housing Rights Initiative organizes 30-plaintiff lawsuit (The Real Deal)

Housing Rights Initiative quoted in the Village Voice

How NYC Landlords Kill Affordable Housing by Simply Making Repairs FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2016 AT 1:13 P.M. BY NEIL DEMAUSE Tenants of 596 East...

Interview on BronxTalk

Housing Rights Initiative in the Bedford and Bowery

Title: #HackHousing Proves That Not All Tech Bros Suck JULY 18, 2016 BY NICOLE DISSER After making my way through a gilded, marble-floor...

Housing Rights Initiative quoted in DNAinfo

Rental Site Helps You Steer Clear of Bad Landlord Using Letter Grades By Amy Zimmer MANHATTAN — It’s rare — and cumbersome — for a...

TONIGHT: Town Hall On “Predatory Equity Landlords” In Our Area

The Flatbush Tenant Coalition (FTC) is hosting a town hall meeting tonight to “bring awareness about the rampant and destructive...