Every January, the Coach offers a Scorecard briefing that breaks down the previous year’s key federal fair housing cases and their impact on you. Our Scorecard counts only reported federal court cases in which a landlord was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Housing Act (FHA). There were 85 such cases in 2024, in line with previous years’ totals. 

A shareholder-tenant of the NYC co-op kept a series of parrots in her apartment. In 2015 she acquired a new parrot that neighbors complained was particularly noisy. The landlord co-op corporation sent the tenant a number of letters warning her about the noise as a violation of her proprietary lease and house rules prohibiting excessive noise ...