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Landlords sue Minneapolis over Section 8
Landlords are suing Minneapolis over the requirement to accept Section 8 housing vouchers:
http://www.startribune.com/landlords-sue-minneapol...
Personally I am not surprised about this and think they may be successful as this ordinance is really discriminating against the landlords. For those of us who have rented properties and accepted Section 8 we all know there are additional hassles involved in the property management phase.
Posting this to pass on the information to those with properties in Mpls.
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There is case law that relates to this. I believe the courts will allow local and state governments to make recipients of federal benefits to be a protected class.
Even without such a protection, you have to consider a disparate impact claim. MANY of the people on section 8 are in protected classes.
I would rather have an ordinance than have the city decide to help potential tenants bring disparate impact claims against individual landlords. They can absolutely provide free legal aide.