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Landlord Accountability Act of 2016
"This bill amends the Fair Housing Act to make it unlawful to discriminate in connection with the rental of a dwelling because the current or prospective tenant holds a housing voucher for rental assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937.
An owner of a dwelling unit available for rental may not take any action, or fail to take any action, with the intent to make the unit insufficiently decent, safe, sanitary, or inhabitable so that the dwelling fails to qualify for assistance within the jurisdiction of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)."
It's still in committee, so I guess I'll be writing some congresspersons. $100,000 fine plus the tenant can sue me for $50,000? Are you freaking kidding me? I notice there was no clause for how to reimburse landlords for damage to their property by these tenants they are now going to be forced to take. Gee, there is a surprise.
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Fails to take action to qualify the house for Section 8? I've got one that won't pass Section 8 inspection because there is a 100 year old tree too close to the house. I refuse to cut down my tree, so a Section 8 tenant can sue me for that?
Fails to take any action? Reasonable accommodation is out the window? Any action? No matter how much it costs?
Fails to take action to qualify the house for Section 8? I've got one that won't pass Section 8 inspection because there is a 100 year old tree too close to the house. I refuse to cut down my tree, so a Section 8 tenant can sue me for that?
Fails to take any action? Reasonable accommodation is out the window? Any action? No matter how much it costs?
Egads, didn't even think about that one.
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Fails to take action to qualify the house for Section 8? I've got one that won't pass Section 8 inspection because there is a 100 year old tree too close to the house. I refuse to cut down my tree, so a Section 8 tenant can sue me for that?
Fails to take any action? Reasonable accommodation is out the window? Any action? No matter how much it costs?
In Portland you need a permit to cut down a tree. There must be cases where the city won't issue a permit and I'm sure this bill has no provision for that case.
This has been coming for a while but I doubt it even makes it to the floor for a vote. It certainly won't make it in its current state.
This law is completely negated by a 650-700 minimum credit score requirement, or no late payments on your credit report in the last 12 months or a number of other requirements that will weed out section 8 tenants other ways. Section 8 tenants typically have bad credit history or no history and are easily denied for those reasons as long as you set requirements and follow them.
Landlord Accountability Act of 2016
"This bill amends the Fair Housing Act to make it unlawful to discriminate in connection with the rental of a dwelling because the current or prospective tenant holds a housing voucher for rental assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937.
An owner of a dwelling unit available for rental may not take any action, or fail to take any action, with the intent to make the unit insufficiently decent, safe, sanitary, or inhabitable so that the dwelling fails to qualify for assistance within the jurisdiction of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)."
So Landlords should not destroy the house to make the property unfit for HUD assistance. I don't see an issue with that. lol
No. I take it you have never been through a section 8 inspection. The ridiculous things they fail a person for can be unbelievably nit picky. On the positive side, provided this bill doesn't pass, electing to not fix those pesky requirements is how landlords avoid taking section 8 tenants in states/localities don't allow you to refuse section 8 tenants. What that bill is saying is that if the section 8 inspection nazi says my unit needs a $2,000 widget, that is totally unnecessary, I have to pay for it whether I want to or not. She's trying to get rid of a well known, well used loophole to avoid section 8 tenants. She claims this is a way of making more rental housing available, she is wrong. What it would do is inspire me, and I am sure others, to get out of the rental business.
Maybe she should just write a bill demanding all private owners who don't live on a piece of property just turn it over to the government. It isn't much different.
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Fails to take action to qualify the house for Section 8? I've got one that won't pass Section 8 inspection because there is a 100 year old tree too close to the house. I refuse to cut down my tree, so a Section 8 tenant can sue me for that?
Fails to take any action? Reasonable accommodation is out the window? Any action? No matter how much it costs?
No, the purpose is to hold a landlord liable if they do anything to deliberately fail an inspection or if they have a repair necessary to pass an inspection but they deliberately fail to make the repair. So, if you have a unit for rent, you can't remove the toilet just to fail the inspection and if you are missing the toilet, you can't refuse to install one just to fail the inspection.
The summary doesn't give a clear context of the requirement; the actual Bill does.
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