One of New York City’s largest real estate rental brokers and a second company will have to pay damages for discriminating against a disabled man with AIDS because he was receiving subsidies from the city’s HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA).
A federal judge found that Manhattan Apartments Inc. and Abba Realty Associates Inc. violated New York City’s Human Rights Law by denying housing to Keith Short once they found out that his source-of-income was HASA, a part of the city’s Department of Social Services.
