{"id":352572,"date":"2026-09-21T16:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/352572\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:45:10","slug":"brooklyn-renters-denied-apartments-over-their-court-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/352572\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Renters Denied Apartments Over Their Court Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fund will remain open for three years or until the money runs out, whichever comes first.<\/p>\n<p>Another $202,250 will go toward penalties for violating the state\u2019s tenant-blacklisting law. The firm must also pay $50,000 to a New York City affordable-housing fund, with another $52,250 due by Dec. 31, 2027.<\/p>\n<p> What Will The Firm Have To Change? <\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn High Rise must stop requesting landlord-tenant court records or rental histories as part of its screening process.<\/p>\n<p>If prohibited court records accidentally reach the firm, it must have the applicant submit a new screening report without the records. A different leasing agent, who has not seen the prohibited information, must then review the application.<\/p>\n<p>The firm also must remove questions about criminal convictions from its rental applications before making a conditional housing offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fund will remain open for three years or until the money runs out, whichever comes first. Another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-352572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}