HPD litigation

HPD litigation is the housing agency's court track: proceedings against owners in housing court seeking correction orders, civil penalties, and appointments — up to the court-appointed administrators who displace owners of the worst buildings. Cases arise from violation patterns, tenant-initiated proceedings the agency joins, and the agency's own comprehensive actions against distressed buildings.

A building's litigation history is a distinct signal layer from its violations: violations mark conditions, litigation marks the system escalating past citation into compulsion. Consent orders, contempt findings, and administrator appointments each document stages of that escalation — and their presence in a building's record reprices its operational story accordingly.