That was enough to land her on something known among housing advocates and lawyers as the tenant blacklist, which is compiled by tenant-screening database companies from housing court records. Photo“No one should be condemned to being homeless just because they were in housing court,” Mr. Kallos said. “It’s taken my life away from me,” Ms. Miller, an artist who goes by the name Lumiere, said. Recently, a man sat at a table in Manhattan housing court typing in the names and addresses for hundreds of index numbers. About a year ago, she learned she was on the tenant-screening list.

Source: New York Times August 16, 2016 13:36 UTC