{"id":1407,"date":"2016-07-01T13:38:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T13:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/affordablehousingonline.com\/blog\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2016-07-06T13:47:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T13:47:22","slug":"national-section-8-anti-discrimination-bill-proposed-in-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affordablehousingonline.com\/blog\/national-section-8-anti-discrimination-bill-proposed-in-house\/","title":{"rendered":"National Section 8 Anti-Discrimination Bill Proposed in House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/114th-congress\/house-bill\/5401\">Since the writing of this blog post, the bill has been officially introduced to Congress.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The challenge Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher holders face in finding a landlord that will accept their voucher may soon be significantly lessened.\u00a0A landmark bill, titled <em>The Landlord Accountability Act of 2016<\/em>, was\u00a0proposed last month by Congresswoman Nydia M. Vel\u00e1zquez (D-NY), which would make it illegal for landlords to discriminate against Section 8 voucher holders nationwide. If this bill passes, no landlord in the entire country would be allowed to deny a tenant specifically because they use a Section 8 voucher to help pay rent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1488\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1488\" style=\"width: 589px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1488\" src=\"http:\/\/affordablehousingonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vela.jpeg\" alt=\"vela\" width=\"589\" height=\"331\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congresswoman Nydia M. Vel\u00e1zquez (center) joined New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman (right) in early June to announce the proposal of the Landlord Accountability Act of 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot legally discriminate against a potential tenant based on race, religion or gender, and this same protection should extend to a potential tenant&#8217;s income,\u201d said\u00a0Vel\u00e1zquez last\u00a0week during the announcement of this bill.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, this bill would would make Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher holders a protected class under the <em>Fair Housing Act<\/em>, which currently provides protection based on race, color,\u00a0national origin, religion, sex, familial status and\u00a0handicap.<\/p>\n<p>It has become increasingly difficult for Section 8 voucher holders to find a landlords willing to participate in the program. After waiting months or years to receive a voucher, Section 8 program participants are given a specific amount of time to find a landlord that\u00a0accepts\u00a0vouchers.<\/p>\n<p>The difficulty\u00a0of\u00a0finding a landlord was highlighted in\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/velazquez.house.gov\/images\/LAAExplainer.pdf\">summary of this proposed bill<\/a>.\u00a0Only 60% of persons that receive a Section 8 voucher\u00a0are successful in finding a participating landlord. The remaining\u00a040% lose their voucher and have no other choice but to\u00a0once again go through a lengthy application process to receive rental assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly every day, we directly communicate with Section 8 voucher holders who struggle to find a unit. We regularly receive messages on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AffordableHousingOnline\/\">Facebook page<\/a> and through email from users asking for help in\u00a0finding a voucher-friendly landlord.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1408\" src=\"http:\/\/affordablehousingonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FBexample1.png\" alt=\"FBexample1\" width=\"467\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1409\" src=\"http:\/\/affordablehousingonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FBexample2.png\" alt=\"FBexample2\" width=\"463\" height=\"71\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While there has <a href=\"http:\/\/affordablehousingonline.com\/source-of-income-antidiscrimination-laws\/\">been an effort in certain cities, counties and states to make\u00a0source of income discrimination illegal<\/a>, a large majority of the country has no such law in effect. Furthermore, only a select number of those\u00a0areas specifically protect Section 8 participants. Otherwise, unless the source of income anti-discrimination law directly mentions the Section 8 program, landlords may discriminate against voucher holders.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Landlord Accountability Act of 2016\u00a0<\/em>would be a federal law that supersedes all local level housing discrimination laws. Even the State of Texas ruling\u00a0that prevents legislation from being passed to protect Section 8 voucher holders would be overruled by the federal ordinance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1217\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1217 \" src=\"http:\/\/affordablehousingonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NO-Section-8-1.png\" alt=\"NO Section 8\" width=\"620\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If the Landlord Accountability Act of 2016 passes, ads like these &#8211; which turn away Section 8 voucher holders- will no longer be legal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The proposed bill would hand out significant fines to landlords who deny Section 8 tenants solely for their source of income. Uncooperative landlords could\u00a0face a fine up to $100,000; not including\u00a0an additional $50,000 fine, half of which would be paid\u00a0to the tenant that was discriminated against.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would also introduce a Multifamily Housing Complaint Resolution program to resolve disputes between tenants and landlords. Additionally, a $24 million grant program proposed in the bill would allow local housing offices to assist tenants by providing legal advice.<\/p>\n<p>Although this bill\u00a0would have a significant result if\u00a0approved, it is unknown how likely it is to\u00a0become law. One issue is that the Democratically-supported bill is being introduced in a legislature comprised\u00a0majorly of Republicans. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/citylimits.org\/2016\/06\/07\/crackdown-on-landlords-who-rebuff-section-8\/\">according to CityLimits.org<\/a>, Section 8 legislation has received more bipartisan support than other federal housing programs, such as Public Housing.<\/p>\n<p>While some\u00a0areas are gradually introducing laws to protect Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher holders, the large majority\u00a0of the nation may still face discrimination when searching for a unit. <em>The Landlord Accountability Act of 2016\u00a0<\/em>would provide protection to the entire country all at once.\u00a0Otherwise, one could only guess as to how many years (or decades) it would take for each individual jurisdiction in the country to approve anti-Section 8 discrimination legislation.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like your local representative to support this bill, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/representatives\/find\/\">search for contact information on the US House of Representatives website here<\/a>. Searching is easy, as you only need to provide your zip code, and the\u00a0web page will provide information about your local representative, along with\u00a0links to their website and email address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Update: Since the writing of this blog post, the bill has been officially introduced to Congress. The challenge Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher holders face in finding a landlord that will accept their voucher may soon be significantly lessened.\u00a0A landmark bill, titled The Landlord Accountability Act of 2016, was\u00a0proposed last month by Congresswoman Nydia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>National Section 8 Anti-Discrimination Bill Proposed in House | Affordable Housing Online News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/affordablehousingonline.com\/blog\/national-section-8-anti-discrimination-bill-proposed-in-house\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"National Section 8 Anti-Discrimination Bill Proposed in House | Affordable Housing Online News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Update: Since the writing of this blog post, the bill has been officially introduced to Congress. 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