A Manhattan judge has held that a recently enacted amendment to New York City’s Human Rights Law requires landlords to accept federal housing subsidies from existing rent-stabilized tenants as well as from tenants who moved in after the law was passed.
When a group of low-income tenants tried to use Section 8 vouchers to pay part of their rent, their landlords claimed a provision of 2008′s Local Law 10, which bars landlords from discriminating based on an individual’s lawful income source, only applied to prospective tenants and was preempted by federal and state law.
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