The New York attorney general’s fair housing testing program has hit a delay, leaving unused up to $3 million in real estate license fees and penalty payments dedicated to the effort.
Nine months after the new program was tentatively expected to launch, the office of state Attorney General Letitia James has not yet moved ahead with it. The original plan — using grants of up to $250,000 a year to launch new fair housing testing programs in underserved areas of the state — attracted no bids, with groups saying the funding levels and two- to three-year time frame were insufficient, the attorney general’s office said.