Several landlords and real estate brokers agreed in a court settlement to improve training programs, recommit to ending housing discrimination.
A contingent of New York City landlords and real estate brokers are promising to give low-income renters a fairer shake, as part of the settlement of a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by the advocacy group Housing Rights Initiative .
Attorney Matthew Handley of the law firm Handley, Farrah and Anderson is representing HRI, whose lawsuit targets 88 landlords and brokers. He spoke with Gothamist about the lawsuit and what’s next for the ongoing litigation. This interview has been lightly edited for content.
Currently over 100,000 families in New York City rely on the voucher program. It's the largest rental-assistance program administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. And that coupled with the fact that there are tens of thousands of individuals sleeping each night in the city's homeless shelter system, almost a 100,000 children who have lived in shelters are doubled up in apartments with family or friends and the pandemic making that situation even more dire.
That's correct. And we intend to hold those other 60-plus defendants accountable and hitting them in the pocket book certainly does have a deterrent effect on the bad behavior also. And we encourage the agencies that have the power to levy fines, whether it be the New York Attorney General's Office or the New York City Human Rights Commission, to continue the work that they have also been building up in recent years to hold these entities and businesses accountable.
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