Co-op board members are rallying against proposed laws aimed at increasing transparency and curtailing discrimination in the co-op board application review process.  Board leaders pushed back against three New York City Council bills that would mandate co-op boards to disclose their reasons for denying an application, among other provisions, at a hearing before the committee on housing and buildings on Tuesday. “Let’s say this plainly: discrimination is happening today, and everyone knows it,” committee chairperson Pierina Sanchez said in her opening remarks. “Secrecy is not a neutral feature of the system. It is the condition that allows discrimination to flourish […]

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