LAKE PLACID The list of candidates running for election in Essex County towns this November has been solidified with the passing of the final deadline for i
LAKE PLACID The list of candidates running for election in Essex County towns this November has been solidified with the passing of the final deadline for
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“No Section 8 accepted.”
It’s a familiar refrain to low-income renters searching for a place to live. The four-word phrase signals one of the last (mostly) legal forms of overt housing discrimination. Commonly referred to as “source-of-income discrimination,” landlords across the nation often refuse to accept tenants who attempt to pay rent with help from the federal government’s Section 8 housing voucher program.
Now, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) has put the nearly 40,000 Section 8 recipients in her state in jeopardy of getting those notices by signing a new law that ensures cities and counties can no longer protect their residents from this subtle form of discrimination.