LOS ANGELES -- California tenants who held Section 8 housing vouchers were refused rental contracts by more than 200 landlords, including major real estate firms, according to an undercover investigation that found widespread discrimination in the state.
The investigative nonprofit Housing Rights Initiative announced Tuesday that it has filed complaints with the California Civil Rights Department, alleging landlords violated a state law against denying leases to renters who pay with vouchers. It seeks penalties against 203 companies and individuals.
you mean landlords don't want to rent to tenants who are more likely to annoy their neighbors, bring in crime, and destroy the unit? Perish the thought.......
ReplyDeleteI'm.............stunned.
A good friend retired from the Army and wanted to get into the rental game. He bought several units and after almost a full year of renovation and making the places functional, he was ready to begin the nightmare. After just 2 years, he almost broke even after the legal fees for evictions and the rebuilding process after the animals literally kicked in every wall, destroyed every appliance and ripped out plumbing. Never, never, never rent to section 8 animals. They are better off being placed into a woodchipper for fertilizer.
ReplyDeleteYep ....I had a customer that I did a lot of work for before retiring... He has 3 apartment complexes that 4 plexus, one of which he allowed section 8 tenants. The non sec.8 complexes we would do minor repairs and fresh paint normally in the vacant apartments where in the sec.8 complex apartments almost always required the apartment to be off the market for several months to get it ready to be rented again.. The craziest part is someone from the sec.8 department would have to walk through and "approve" the apartment before they would sign off on a lease.. He eventually quit the sec.8 nonsense
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Where I come from, 'Section 8' is a thinly veiled euphemism for 'negros'. As in, "You don't want to go house hunting over that way. It's a Section 8 neighborhood." By contrast, 'Good schools' implies majority-White. Average house price is always a dead giveaway.
ReplyDeleteYou can also, if you think about it, just drive through the prospective neighborhood at different times every day and get the feel for it. I think in Cali they mandate landlords take Section 8 but only for low rent units. Obviously proper owners keep the values high and the rentals higher to keep the crazies and lunatics and the terrorists out.
DeleteFirst house, there was an apartment complex two blocks away that went Section 8. Within two months anything outside that wasn't alarmed or guarded would be stolen. It was bad.
ReplyDeleteTwo years later it was sold and the new owners announced "In 60 days we will no longer do Section 8." And two months later the theft problems stopped.
Second house down from us, the old lady who'd lived there forever died and her son rented it out, and went Section 8. Those assholes trashed the house, and the gang squad was showing up there sometimes twice a week. And, again, keep it locked up or watched or it would disappear.
I'd sooner burn it to the ground than rent to some shit weasel paying his rent with MY tax money.
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