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New Rental Protection in NYC

By Nadine | July 20, 2008

I don’t know how I missed this becasue I’ve been watching the news since mid-March when Mayor Bloomberg vetoed the original legislation, but effective March 26, 2008, renters in New York City cannot be turned down for an apartment because they have a Section 8 voucher. All legal sources of income have to be treated equally.

That means that every landlord in New York City who has 6 or more rental units must accept Section 8 vouchers if everything else about the applicant is acceptable.

This is a huge change and should have been splashed all over the papers and TV, but I never saw anything. Here’s a link to an article from the Gotham Gazette that has a pretty good explanation. This kind of protection has been in place for years in New Jersey.