Will New York’s Source of Income Protections Survive Legal Challenges?
A landlord in Ithaca, New York challenged source-of-income discrimination protections, arguing that such laws effectively force landlords to consent to government searches, and courts agreed with this reasoning in two instances. This legal argument has since appeared in roughly a dozen similar cases across the country, raising questions about the future viability of source-of-income protections in New York and elsewhere.