housing discrimination

Homeownership has been billed as a way to generate wealth for American families, but a new study shows blacks don’t reap the same financial...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is taking aim at Facebook, claiming the social networking website enables landlords and homeowners to discriminate...

The city of New York sued a broker and a landlord Wednesday for allegedly refusing to accept tenants using government housing vouchers. Landlord Oxford...

Fifty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, the city’s housing stock remains segregated. And according to an analysis by Politico, Mayor...

A stark racial disparity still exists when it comes to receiving mortgage loans. Although overall mortgage applications are getting denied at their lowest rate...

Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled over alleged housing ad discrimination on the company’s social network during his Senate testimony Tuesday, and suggested the...

In most of New York state, having enough money to pay rent doesn’t necessarily get you an apartment. In fact, most counties have no...

The Trump administration will delay enforcing an initiative from the Obama administration that required communities to address housing discrimination patterns. The Department of Housing...

A court battle that began eight years ago concerning racial segregation in a proposed Brooklyn development is expected to end on Monday. The fight...

An anti-discrimination case is forcing a community known for housing Nazi sympathizers to abide by state and federal housing laws. The German American Settlement League in...

With a president now in the White House who was once sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination in housing, advocates for fair...

JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $55 million to settle charges that independent mortgage brokers working with the bank discriminated against minorities. In a complaint...

Former Mets slugger Mo Vaughn is one of five landlords charged by the city’s Human Rights Commission with discriminating against tenants on federal assistance...

The Fair Housing Justice Center is suing Bronx landlord Hamdi Nezaj, accusing him of discriminating among potential tenants on the basis of race and...

Park Slope has become so synonymous with baby strollers that actor Patrick Stewart half-jokingly tried to start a ban in 2014. The son-in-law of...

On Sunday, Gov. Cuomo announced the launch of a statewide initiative to crack down on discrimination in the housing market.

Tenants of an Upper West Side mixed-income building allege the landlord is discriminating against the elderly by barring low-income residents from using the property’s...

Three New York City brokerages agreed to pay penalties and change their policies to settle an investigation by the New York attorney general’s office...

 A Tudor City resident is suing the apartment building for trying to kick out his girlfriend because she is mentally ill.

A new lawsuit charges the owners of two Brooklyn rental complexes with pushing out black tenants in an effort to bring in white residents....