without discrimination or other limitations bases on your race, color,
religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin.
You CAN discriminate for people other than listed above (based on federal law). You can discriminate based on criminal background for example, or you can discriminate based on someone not meeting your income requirements.
Now It is important to understand that state or local jurisdictions can have more "protected classes" and you need to know those local requirements.
@Charlie Moore most likely this is a FHA violation as you are discriminating against anyone who is not Sec 8. It might be ok to say Sec 8 welcome but I would avoid saying only for many reasons this being one of them.
"House for Lease. $1000 a month. Section 8 welcome." I can't see a problem with that. Of course, I'm not a lawyer. As to the second part of your post: Why would you rent to anyone for less than the person who will pay you the most. Sounds like going rent is $1000.
Why not price it higher, you can always decide to take less, voucher or not.
"Okay so its not discrimination to lower the rental price ? for someone "
I'm not sure how giving someone a better price would be discrimination. but hey, whatever. Pay full price if you like. I don't know about you, but you don't always get your asking rental price, and if you like an applicant, and the numbers make sense, I guess to not offend you should leave it empty?
Just because you want to see it, doesn't mean it's there.
Yes. It's a violation to ask higher rent from a Sec 8 tenant than you do for a self-paying tenant. Totally understandable that you would want to, because Sec 8 tenants are usually much harder on the property (and that's putting it nicely), and you have to hold the unit open for at least two weeks, and often more, while waiting for inspection and approval. There are ways around this. I'll leave it to you to figure out how.