The Legal Aid Society filed this lawsuit against 29 landlords and real estate brokers who refused to rent apartments to New Yorkers with government-subsidized housing vouchers by applying artificial and unnecessary minimum-income requirements that effectively barred nearly all voucher-holding households from securing housing in their properties. Housing Rights Initiative, a national nonprofit committed to preserving affordable housing in New York City, brought the lawsuit.

LAS negotiated settlement agreements that included programmatic changes, such as the offering of apartments to voucher-holders, as well as the adoption of non-discrimination policies, employee training, auditing, compliance testing, and reporting.

New Yorkers are protected from discrimination in housing based on their lawful source of income, including housing vouchers, by both state and city law.