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Title: Landlords No Longer Have Option to Deny Section 8
Source: Niles-Morton Grove Patch
URL Source: http://niles.patch.com/groups/aroun ... ion-to-deny-section-8-12b91ca0
Published: May 21, 2013
Author: George Slefo
Post Date: 2013-06-13 17:43:38 by Dakmar
Keywords: None
Views: 755
Comments: 30

The Cook County Board has added Section 8, or Housing Choice Vouchers, to the list of reasons landlords cannot bar tenants under the Illinois Fair Housing Law.

Up until recently, landlords had discretion on whether they would allow Section 8 tenants to rent in their properties. That all changed on May 8 as the Cook County Board approved a measure that would penalize landlords for discriminating against Section 8 voucher holders.

The Illinois Fair Housing Law states that one cannot deny an applicant based on race, ethnicity, religion, age, sex, disability, presence of children or sexual orientation. Now, Section 8 voucher holders have been added to that list.

The measure passed 9-6, the Sun-Times reported. If prospective Section 8 holders believe they were denied a unit because of their voucher status, they now have the right to file a complaint with the Cook County Commission on Human Rights.

According to Open Communities, a nonprofit organization that pushes for equal housing rights, there are approximately 15,000 voucher holders in Cook County.


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Ah requires a penthouse on N Lake Shore Drive, to excape da discriminashun ah's been previously subjecticated to.

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#11. To: Dakmar (#0)

That's OK, but if landlords will use services like www.ntnonline.com/ they can get the information needed to correctly choose their tenants.

At $19/screening, it's way, way worth it to me.

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#15. To: Lod, all (#11)

NTN looks pretty neat! My experience with Sect 8 was that the vouchers were not enough to cover the rent I was charging and if you accept someone one sect 8 you cannot charge more than the voucher. They often offered to pay the difference but since it was illegal I realized I had no leverage to make them pay if I let them in and no way to get them OUT.

Have I got that right?

Hmmmmm  posted on  2013-06-13   19:44:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: Hmmmmm (#15)

I've been working with the local HA since '83.

They now have really, really, good people there who are fair to both landlord and tenant.

They're excellent at keeping up with fair market rents.

If your HA has sorry management, avoid them like the plague.

Bonus hint: renting to elderly and or disabled will get you tenants for life.

I tell all prospects that they are to live there until they die; and that they are to live to 200. (I figger by then I'll be outta the picture.)

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