We manage rental units for friends of ours and when a vacancy occurs there are times when the majority of applicants for tenancy are Section 8 holders. The conversation goes like this:
"Do you accept Sec..."
"Sorry, no."
End of conversation.
I can envision a time in the not-too-distant future when the law will be changed to open the landlord to discrimination lawsuits for refusing to rent to Section 8 certificate holders.
“I can envision a time in the not-too-distant future when the law will be changed to open the landlord to discrimination lawsuits for refusing to rent to Section 8 certificate holders.”
The whole concept of asking for references will be criminalized. A friend has a rental property in Sussex County NJ (”the hills”); the Section 8 people trying to get in are all white. The references screen them.
bingo
if the rental property is in a targeted neighborhood then landlords will not be able to refuse section 8 and section 8 people will be given thousands of dollars a month to move on up to the good life
I want to see it happen in Georgetown Foxhall Chevy Chase and McLean as a model of the rest of the country