The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday moved forward with a law that would bar landlords from refusing to consider tenants with Section 8 vouchers.
In a 12-0 vote, the council instructed the city attorney to draft an ordinance that would extend protections against so-called source-of-income discrimination to people who pay with vouchers.
A growing number of municipalities, including San Diego and Santa Monica, have passed source-of-income voucher laws as tenants increasingly can't find landlords who accept the vouchers. Experts say the federal rent subsidiesAlthough the proposed law does not directly address the problem of, it does prohibit blanket Section 8 bans and outlaws common advertisements that state vouchers aren't accepted.
Housing advocates say those beliefs are inaccurate and can reflect negative stereotypes of low-income households, as well as racism against people of color, who make up the majority of voucher holders. Section 8, for example, requires landlords to have units inspected before they can be rented with the federal subsidy, and the association said wait times to conduct those checks can be long and delay rent payment. The city’s housing authority said it’s working to reduce wait times to two days.
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