NY A01568

Prohibits owners and managing agents of publicly-assisted housing from refusing to rent or lease to individuals based on their involvement in past, ongoing, or current landlord-tenant court proceedings

Extends the same protection to all housing accommodations, making it an unlawful discriminatory practice to deny housing based on a person's history of landlord-tenant legal actions

Creates an exception allowing landlords to deny housing if the prospective tenant has an unsatisfied court order from a previous landlord-tenant proceeding

Adds landlord-tenant court history to the list of protected categories that real estate brokers cannot use to induce real estate transactions through "blockbusting" tactics

Amends Section 296 of the Executive Law (New York's Human Rights Law) to classify tenant blacklisting as unlawful housing discrimination