Fordham Urban Law Journal Volume 45 Article 2 Number 3 The Realities of Renting 2018 A Place to Call Home: Tenant Blacklisting and the Denial of Opportunity Paula A. Franzese Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj Recommended Citation Paula A. Franzese, A Place to Call Home: Tenant Blacklisting and the Denial of Opportunity, 45 Fordham Urb. L.J. 661 (2018). Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol45/iss3/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fordham Urban Law Journal by an authorized editor of FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. A PLACE TO CALL HOME: TENANT BLACKLISTING AND THE DENIAL OF OPPORTUNITY Paula A. Franzese* Introduction ............................................................................................. 662 I. The Practice of Tenant Blacklisting................................................ 666 II. In Their Own Words: Tenants’ Stories ......................................... 673 A. Yanira Cortes ......................................................................... 674 B. Ada Lopez ............................................................................... 678 C. Maurice Smith ......................................................................... 679 D. Lori Dibble ............................................................................. 681 E. Ebony Watson