This page publishes the two complaints I have signed in Horn v. Post Goldtex, LP, FHC Docket 2026-06-02-23769, before the City of Philadelphia Fair Housing Commission — the original complaint and the amended complaint that superseded it one day later. Both are unfair-rental-practice complaints under Section 9-800 et seq. of the Philadelphia Code. Both were prepared by the Commission for my signature; the words quoted below are from the signed filings themselves.
The two PDFs are reproduced in full at the bottom of this page. The account of what I sent the Commission between the two drafts is my own first-person testimony, attributed as such. The e-signature audit page appended by the signing service has been omitted from the posted copies; the complaint text is complete and unaltered.
The original complaint
Signed June 29, 2026. The licensing-and-retaliation story.The original complaint set out the core record: since October 2025 I reported electrical issues, non-working central HVAC, and chemical fumes from a portable AC unit; L&I inspected in February and April 2026 and cited code violations (reports CF-2026-012633, CF-2026-012614, CF-2026-041843); the landlord holds no rental license; and while two of those violation reports stood open, the landlord issued an April 13 Notice of Non-Renewal and a May 4 Notice to Quit, both demanding I vacate by June 15, 2026.
On the landlord’s stated justification, the original complaint said only this:
Its retaliation claim reached the repairs and the L&I reports — two of the three protected activities:
The flyers, the tenant union, and the word “unauthorized” appeared nowhere in it.
What I sent the Commission
The documentation already published on this site.Between the original draft and the amended one, I sent the Commission The Unauthorized — the page on this site that documents, with photographs and the verbatim email text: the factual tenant-organizing notices I posted about the building’s expired rental license, their removal and disposal in the fitness-center trash, and the April 28, 2026 building-wide email from management, subject line “Unauthorized Flyers,” sent to every resident except me.
That record did work. The Commission’s amended draft, prepared June 30, folded the organizing story into the docket — the flyers, the tenant union, and the landlord’s own characterization of the flyers as “unauthorized.” This is my first-person account of the sequence; the before-and-after text below is quoted directly from the two signed filings and speaks for itself.
The amended complaint
Prepared by the Commission June 30, 2026. Three additions.The amended complaint is the original with three changes — each one carrying the organizing record into the case:
| Where | Original (signed June 29) | Amended (signed June 30) |
|---|---|---|
| ¶12.CNew allegation | — not present — | “Beginning in April 2026, I posted flyers throughout my building to establish a tenant’s union.” |
| ¶12.G → ¶12.HThe “good cause” | “Landlord’s ‘good cause reason’ for terminating my lease was numerous lease violations.” | “Landlord’s ‘good cause reason’ for terminating my lease was numerous lease violations, including, posting unauthorized flyers.” |
| ¶14Retaliation claim | “… after I exercised my right to report repairs and report the property to L&I …” | “… after I exercised my right to report repairs, report the property to L&I, and because I am attempting to form a tenant organization, under Section 9-804(2) of the Philadelphia Code.” |
Everything else — the license allegations under §§ 9-3901–9-3902, the open-violations claim under § 9-804(1), the challenge to the Notice to Quit under § 9-804(12)(d) — carried over unchanged.
One word, four appearances.
The reason the addendum matters is the vocabulary it locks in. “Unauthorized” is not my word — it is the building’s, used at every step, and now it sits in a signed filing as the landlord’s stated reason for ending my tenancy:
- “They’re unauthorized.”The explanation I was given, in person, for the flyers’ removal — by the leasing manager’s partner. (The Unauthorized, my account.)
- Subject: “Unauthorized Flyers”The April 28, 2026 building-wide email about “an individual resident,” sent to everyone but me.
- “… posting unauthorized flyers”The landlord’s stated “good cause reason” for terminating my lease following the May 4 Notice to Quit, as pleaded in the amended complaint (¶12.H).
- Amended complaint, ¶12.HThat reason, quoted into the Commission’s docket — where posting flyers to form a tenant union is a protected activity under § 9-804(2).
The landlord called protected tenant organizing “unauthorized” and listed it as good cause to end a tenancy. The amended complaint makes that sentence part of the record.
The two complaints
Both signed filings, reproduced in full. The e-signature service’s audit page (which lists private email addresses) is omitted; the complaint text is complete.