Tenant Blacklisting
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2016 2:20 am
This thread is for more generic tenant blacklisting issues and reports. Please see the separate thread that deals with the tenant blacklisting lawsuit going back to 2006.
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• A rental application may not be refused on the basis of a past or present
landlord-tenant action or summary proceeding under RPAPL Art. 7.
• A rebuttable presumption is created against a landlord that denies rental
after having requested information from a tenant screening bureau or
otherwise inspected court records.
• Landlord has the burden to provide an alternate reason that tenancy
was rejected.
• Attorney General has enforcement power; no private cause of action.
• Civil penalties between $500 and $1,000 for each violation.
• The Unified Court System may not sell residential-tenancy or eviction
data.
• Effective 6/14/19..
Protecting Tenants from Building Blacklists
In 2016, The New York Times covered bills I introduced aimed at preventing landlords from blacklisting tenants who have been to housing court. The bills were introduced as a result of the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers named in housing court cases every year that get reported to companies along with credit reports and are often used to deny applications to renters. I reintroduced the legislation last year, and it got a hearing in the City Council this past month. AM New York wrote about how the bill would make discrimination based on the tenant blacklist a human rights violation punishable by fines and enforceable by New York City's Human Rights Commission. For more information, read past coverage in The New York Times and the new reporting from [urlhttps://www.amny.com/real-estate/nyc-tenant-blacklist-ban-1.36511535]amNY[/url].