{"id":2675,"date":"2026-04-28T16:39:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/?page_id=2675"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:39:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:39:53","slug":"using-disparate-impact-theory-under-the-fair-housing-act-to-address-aggressive-policing-tactics-in-new-york-city-public-housing-communities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/in-print\/volume-63-number-2-spring-2026\/using-disparate-impact-theory-under-the-fair-housing-act-to-address-aggressive-policing-tactics-in-new-york-city-public-housing-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Disparate-Impact Theory Under the Fair Housing Act to Address Aggressive Policing Tactics in New York City Public Housing Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Note will suggest bringing a Fair Housing Act (\u201cFHA\u201d) disparate-impact claim to combat aggressive policing practices in New York City Public Housing Authority (\u201cNYCHA\u201d) communities. Part I will explore the relationship between policing and public housing communities in New York. It will examine how police officers use high-crime doctrine and trespass law to justify stops of residents and vertical sweeps of buildings. These practices lower community trust and perpetuate the public-housing-to-prison pipeline in New York City. Part II will describe how \u00a7 3604(b) of the FHA can be used as a tool to challenge the discriminatory impact of policing on Black and Latino residents in NYCHA communities. It will explore cases where disparate-impact claims addressing aggressive police behavior have been recognized as viable by the Southern District of New York. Part III will examine the requirements of making an FHA disparate-impact claim. This Note suggests that providing evidence to demonstrate statistical proof of disproportionate impact will be the largest challenge for NYCHA plaintiffs in a disparate-impact claim. Although tailored to New York, the recommendations of this Note are relevant to FHA Plaintiffs throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/04\/GT-ACLR260006.pdf\">Continue reading Using Disparate-Impact Theory Under the Fair Housing Act to Address Aggressive Policing Tactics in New York City Public Housing Communities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Note will suggest bringing a Fair Housing Act (\u201cFHA\u201d) disparate-impact claim to combat aggressive policing practices in New York City Public Housing Authority (\u201cNYCHA\u201d) communities. Part I will explore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":2657,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-2675","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2675\/revisions\/2676"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}