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Bronx Co-op Community Welcomes All Buyers Discriminatory Reference Rule Abolished May 1, 2013, District Court Judge Robert P. Patterson, Jr. approved a settlement between the Fair Housing Justice Center (FHJC) and the Edgewater Park Owners Cooperative, Inc. (EPOC). The agreement resolves a lawsuit filed in February 2010 in which the FHJC alleged that two housing […]

FHJC Investigation Exposes Racial Bias at Bay Ridge Apartment Building April 29, 2013 The Fair Housing Justice Center (FHJC) and three African American testers filed a lawsuit in federal district court (E.D.N.Y.) alleging that the owners and managers of an apartment building in Brooklyn discriminate against African American renters. This case resulted from an undercover testing […]

FHJC Uncovers Separate and Unequal Track at LeFrak On April 25, 2013, the Fair Housing Justice Center (FHJC) and a woman living with AIDS who applied to rent an apartment at the 5000-unit LeFrak City complex filed a lawsuit in federal district court (S.D.N.Y.) alleging that one of the nation’s largest landlords discriminates on the […]

19 Buildings, But No Apartments for African Americans On April 18, 2013, the Fair Housing Justice Center (FHJC) and four African American testers filed a lawsuit in federal district court (E.D.N.Y.) alleging that the owners and managers of multiple apartment buildings discriminate against African American renters. The case resulted from an investigation conducted by the […]

FHJC Settles Discrimination Case with NYC Realty Firm On March 15, 2013, federal Judge Deborah Batts signed a settlement agreement resolving FHJC’s housing discrimination lawsuit against Bond NYC Properties Brokerage (Bond), a realty company with over 300 agents. The settlement provides extensive injunctive relief and a total monetary recovery of $212,500. In the settlement, Bond […]

Realty Firms Resolve Housing Discrimination Complaints During 2008 and 2009, New York City real estate agents repeatedly refused to show apartments to a homeless man with disabilities who had income from SSI and a Fixed Income Advantage Voucher (FIAV) upon learning that he did not work and received a rental subsidy and disability-related benefits. The FHJC assisted the […]

Settlement Opens Brooklyn Rental Buildings to African Americans On March 19, 2012, the Fair Housing Justice Center and four African American testers filed a federal lawsuit alleging the owners and managers of apartment buildings in Brooklyn were discriminating against African American prospective renters. The lawsuit resulted from a systemic testing investigation conducted in 2010 and […]