Obo forgets: Why are there suburbs anyway?
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Many rental managers/owners simply do not take Section 8 applicants. They don’t want to deal with the paperwork and ‘associated problems’.
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Some of this was tried 40 to 50 years ago. Nice apartment complexes became low-rent and high crime and other infestations.
They’ve more recently done this in the west Houston suburb areas. Nice neighborhoods and nice apartments crime rates took a big jump.
Thanks, 0blama.
Pretty soon they won't have a choice.
Several cities, including in Texas, passed ordinances that said you can’t engage in income discrimination - so when you ask for proof of income to pay the rent, you can’t refuse to count SSDI, welfare, Section 8 housing.
The only stumbling blocks are:
* they can’t MAKE property 8 owners sign up for a program, just as they can’t make you sign up for childcare voucher acceptance, so the ordinance only counts if you join their program
* credit scores can still be used as a screening standard if applied across the board, and that’s still a factor
* saying you can’t filter out people based on criminal records WILL lead to lawsuits because it is necessary for the safety of the other tenants