The New York State Office of Court Administration [OCA] sells the names of every tenant sued in housing court for eviction, handing over the names to private companies that create lists of potentially bad tenants. Landlords then buy the lists to screen out applicants, many of whom wind up on this list even if they win their housing court lawsuits. Or even if an error resulted in them getting sued by mistake. But now a legal team is going to court to fight the blacklisting. [ more › ]
There's A Bad Tenants' "Blacklist": Is Your Name On It?
John Del Signore
Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:17:00 GMT
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