In a decision which clarifies the rights of the approximately 52,000 New York City tenants who receive Section 8 housing subsidies, a State Supreme Court justice has issued a declaratory judgment ...
Accepting Section 8 renters can be both a profitable and socially meaningful choice for landlords. Section 8, officially known as the Housing Choice Voucher Program, offers rental assistance to ...
As if navigating the application process for Section 8 housing wasn’t difficult enough, now there are those hoping to keep such tenants out of decent homes. The Department of Housing and Urban ...
MIDDLETOWN — While it’s no secret there is a higher amount of crime in neighborhoods with more Section 8 housing, city statistics show tenants are more likely to be victims of crime than the cause.
After nearly a decade of litigation, a federal judge has ruled that the Lakewood Tenants Organization (LTO), the nonprofit ...
DOWNTOWN — In what was hailed as a victory for landlords, a state appellate court ruled recently that property owners have the right to not accept Section 8 vouchers from low-income tenants. The ...
The second-highest court in the state ruled this month that New York landlords must renew rent-stabilized Section 8 leases, affirming that landlords may not opt out of the federal rent subsidy program ...
A national investigative nonprofit on Monday lodged discrimination complaints against more than 200 California landlords and their representatives — including major real estate brokerages — alleging ...
The City of Santa Monica announced this week it had won the latest in a string of legal victories in tenant protection cases, successfully defending its Anti-Housing Discrimination Ordinance in LA ...
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 ...
The property management company, FirstService Residential Texas, “discriminated because of race, color, sex, national origin, familial status, and disability in violation of the Fair Housing Act (“Act ...