Posted on 09/12/2019 1:18:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin
California landlords would no longer be allowed to reject prospective tenants solely because they hold federal Section 8 housing vouchers under a bill passed by the state Legislature on Wednesday.
300,000 Californians who receive the vouchers. The program provides the largest direct federal subsidy for low-income tenants.
“Why do we continue to criminalize and penalize and have bias against people who are poor?”
Additionally, California just adopted statewide rent control, and places like Sh*t Francisco are adopting ordinances that force property owners to rent their properties.
Basically, California has gone Marxist.
So, if I have a $1,000,000 house for rent, I have to rent it to a Section 8 applicant?...................
Did I read that right? The largest *Federal* subsidy? Responsible states and working class America subsizing CA, as usual. I am afraid to ask what the acrual annula dollar amounts are.
“... reject prospective tenants solely because they hold federal Section 8 housing voucher...”
Most of them could be rejected for a hundred different valid reasons other than “solely” for Section 8 vouchers.
I predict that there will soon be a shortage of rentals in California.
“Why do we continue to criminalize and penalize and have bias against people who are poor?” Mitchell said after the bill cleared the Senate.
Because they don’t pay their rent?
Uhhhh, because they can't pay their bills?
Oh, you will get an applicant, trust me.
Someone with a big “ family”
Of course they’ll take good care of the place.
That is already the law in New Jersey with the exception of owner occupied properties with four or fewer units. You can’t discriminate based on any LEGAL source of income, and section 8 is legal. One way around it is to require a high minimum credit score of ALL applicants, but if you’re caught waiving it for the “right” tenant you can be hauled into court and fined.
NOTHING DESTROYS a Hood more than Sec 8
and get Big Brother OUT of housing
For Section 8 the gubmint pays the rent.
There are other reasons Section 8 is often bad news..
Plus they tend to damage the property, carry on illegal activities at the residence, crime in the neighborhood goes up, etc. I had a friend that had a very nice home in a good neighborhood, after the housing crisis, someone rented a house there to a section 8, and it ruined the entire neighborhood.
Yes.
All my rental properties flunk section 8 inspection.
Horrible chess pools they are, without an oven and exposed plugs. I do put that all back when I rent to normal people.
The government can keep its money and its renters.
(And no, this is not illegal. Yet.)
Your in Section 8 AND you look funny.
Then, the surviving tenants can sue for millions and will no longer be poor.
-PJ
What’s your problem? We have a homeless problem in CA, so we’re taking your rental property & giving it to the homeless.
No more homeless, no more problem.
What, you don’t like that?
When I had rental properties in Arizona I had a couple of Sec. 8 renters for a while. Treated my properties like their personal garbage dumpster. Never again.
Cost me a fortune after they moved out to clean the places up for the next tenants.
What's going to happen is these landlords will either sell or just keep the properties off the market to rent. The rental market will dry up.
Real estate is a valuable asset. Owners don't want to see their homes destroyed to assuage the guilt of some liberal officials.
If the tenant can afford the posted rent (with the section 8 subsidy) you can't reject them for that reason. But the posted rent for a property of that value will not be affordable for them, unless it is an apartment in a multi-unit building.
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