San Diego Bans Source of Income Discrimination - 3rd party payers

[Charity Chavez]

SAN DIEGO LANDLORDS! Are you aware you can't reject an applicant for having a 3rd party payer? As of August 2018 the City of San Diego has made it illegal to discriminate based on source of income.

https://nlihc.org/article/san-diego-passes-ban-sou...

Income qualifiers have changed too. If an applicant earns 3x their rent portion, they meet income requirements.

Landlords? Any feedback?

[Cody L.]

Originally posted by @Charity Chavez:

Dan,

You may be right about a rent threshold for Section 8. I work under a grant in conjunction with the San Diego Housing Commission so I'm not all knowing about Section 8 specifically. Good point about the move-in date eliminating programs that require an SDHC inspection. My program doesn't require the long, tedious process but supposedly there are contingency funds to be claimed by landlords out any rent monies lost during the inspection lag.

I'm posting here because so few landlords know the law has changed. I want to hear feedback, concerns, answer questions that I may have the answers to.

My program is far superior to Section 8 so I am educating landlords while suggesting they take a pro-active approach. Find good programs to work with, become a preferred landlord and get referrals matched to your property. My organization does not require the lagging inspection, we pay 100% until no longer needed, we have a housing liaison that is assigned to the client to conduct home visits and inspections, our rent limits are generous compared to other programs, there is a $500 incentive, we pay double deposit. I have many landlords that come to me to fill their vacancies. 

I'm always looking for good landlords to partner with.

Here is my feedback: the government saying you must take someone with second 8 (or disregard their finding source) is f’ing DISGUSTING. It’s MY property. I have gobs of data showing the difference in tenant quality. 

If these other programs were so great, there would be no need to FORCE people to take them. Landlords would be fighting for this “guaranteed” money.  If your program is different and good for owners there is no need to hint that people have to take it  they should WANT to right?

Anytime I see there is some law that’s passed that treats private citizens as slaves to the state I want to vomit.  I don’t like trump and didn’t vote for him but I’d vote for him twice before voting for any pinhead that’s wants to run my life and tell me how I must run MY business. 

I don’t do any tax credit deals. I don’t do section 8. Or anything that has me doing any work with the govememt. I tried early on and was given a huge stack of paper to file out (we  are paperless. That’s a probkem). The inspections (uh, isn’t the tenant the one to make the call if the unit is acceptable?) the fact if the government tells you to jump for any reason you better say “how high” if you’re going to be paid. Yeah pass