No Section 8 Mean
1 senate bill 329 prohibits landlords from rejecting a prospective tenant solely based on the applicant s use of a section 8 federal housing voucher.
No section 8 mean. It doesn t mean that you can t reject them for the same valid reasons you would reject other applicants such as a negative prior landlord history or a problematic criminal background check. Depending on state laws refusing to rent to a tenant solely for the reason that they have section 8 may be illegal. The california apartment association is reminding its members that it s against california law to include no section 8 or similar verbiage in advertisements for rental housing.
Landlords can use only general means of disqualifying a tenant credit criminal history past evictions etc. It also may be illegal to post no section 8 advertisements. But that is simply not the case.
If the law protects people who have section 8 vouchers it means that you can t turn away applicants simply because they have section 8 vouchers.