Long Island Housing Services, Inc.

Long Island Housing Services, Inc. · 2025-04-21T16:07:53.906Z

Family Status and Source of Income Discrimination Complaints Settled with Rockville Centre Real Estate. Continuing Market Failure means Government Must Encourage and Build Affordable Housing for our Children’s Future https://lnkd.in/eaJ4BrW5 Long Island Housing Services (LIHS) settled a housing discrimination complaint against Compass Greater NY LLC and Karen Elefante based on allegations of Familial Status and Source of Income Discrimination. Compass Great NY LLC is a licensed real estate company with an office in Rockville Centre, New York. Elefante is a licensed real estate agent with Compass Greater NY LLC. Source of Income Discrimination Investigation As part of a 2021 systematic investigation, Long Island Housing Services initiated testing against Compass. The testing and investigation revealed evidence that testers with Housing Choice Section 8 vouchers who posed as participants of Making Moves program were told that they would have to meet several criteria, including a credit score of 700 and a minimum yearly income of $100,000 to $120,000. A minimum income policy is often enacted by housing providers as a method of excluding individuals with housing subsidies. Individuals with housing subsidies usually cannot meet the minimum income required by the housing providers because of the maximum income limits required for the housing subsidy. Therefore, it may be considered a source of income discrimination to apply a minimum income or credit score policy to individuals with housing subsidies. Familial Status Discrimination Investigation Denial of the acceptance of the Making Moves program may constitute both familial status discrimination in addition to Source of Income discrimination. Familial status discrimination may occur if the applicant is denied housing after informing the housing provider of the specific nature of the program, such as Making Moves, which was designed to provide opportunities to families with minor children to live in more resourced areas.

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Elimination of unlawful housing discrimination* ranks as the agency’s priority. However, in addition to Fair Housing counseling and investigations, seeking redress for victims where compelling evidence is gathered, we also serve in many other capacities to improve housing conditions for residents. Routinely, clients are referred to us by word-of-mouth and a wide variety of private and public agencies to assist in counseling to resolve many landlord-tenant disputes related to: relationships/communication with housing providers; illegal eviction actions (such as denial of essential services like heat, water, electricity); securing or maintaining housing; improving conditions of habitability (e.g. sanitation/plumbing, infestation, fallen ceilings, leaking roofs/windows); denial of reasonable accommodation (e.g. for creating ramp or parking accessible for tenant’s use); setting illegal occupancy rules, etcetera. Examples of local government agencies from which clients are commonly referred are: County Courts and Departments of Health, Handicapped, Senior and Social Services, Police, as well as Town Building and Code Enforcement Departments. Long Island Housing Services also counsels homeowners that are in danger of foreclosure because of changed economic circumstances (e.g. loss of or diminished income related to hospitalization, illness, job loss, death or separation of families). Our unique fair housing advocacy program distinguishes from any other HUD-approved, certified Housing Counseling agency that serves Long Island. The agency has been in the forefront to investigate and challenge predatory lending and has served with the New Yorkers for Responsible Lending Steering Committee since its inception. "Our mission is the elimination of unlawful housing discrimination and promotion of decent and affordable housing through advocacy and education."

网站: http://www.lifairhousing.org
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所属行业: 非盈利组织
规模: 11-50 人
类型: 非营利机构

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640 Johnson Ave Suite 8

US，New York，Bohemia，11716

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