You can't get inside to view the units, so you can't confirm or deny the condition of the property or it's value.If it were me, I would find a way to take control of the situation.

I'm wondering if I should consider denying the application based on several criteria such as their credit score not meeting the minimum required and previous delinquent bills showing up on their credit report.

City council says the bill would not be considered until after the council meeting this month.Rochester’s Housing Quality Task Force expands focus to homeownersIn order to evict a tenant or deny a renewal, landlords would have to prove the tenant did not pay rent and that it did not result from an unreasonable increase in rent, the tenant violated an obligation of the lease, is being a nuisance or doing illegal activity, or unreasonably refusing to give a landlord access, among others.

This is my opinion only and Spark denies it but the details will come out eventually.

What about S8 tenants abusing utilities and causing damages?

Us bank played trustee and guarantor in sham of a foreclosure where they could not prove they were a PETE  and had been hit with their 4 the ftc sanction FOR stealing homes, used hole in the wall attorneys in Bellingham using typos in name and address to not get flagged for too many foreclosure by the courts, Windermere stellar real estate who say outside of my home waiting to lock me out despite supreme court stay on their theft, judge Lewis who signed every Forged/inaccurate/misleading  paper they put through AND denied my restraining order of the real estate company staying called them to see if they were harassing me and they Said no so denied temp and all together day in court altogether plus put a no Bail hold on me after looking my arrest for trespassing even though was taken out of his jurisdiction and in federal court staying paperwork not filed correctly then laughing saying I didn't know why You're here is in supreme court when I got out of jail and made it to court hearing, the assessor for king county who was on third foreclosure company because feds kept shutting them down so opened new one in different name, every process server was at least 200 miles from me and each one different for each document never served to me but judge Lewis signed them anyways(one was supposedly served to me 3 months before case was even filed), Vancouver Police department who had no jurisdiction on the civil matter that arrested me and gave my house keys to the realtor that was sitting outside waiting, and finally to the site veteran that they used to sign in all three places to transfer title and get veterans protection for title after 2 illegal auctions, one public one private, where they were only bidders and opening bid was above value of house, paperwork stated was bought by lsf8 AGAIN!!! 

Without this change, thousands of veteran buyers could be denied access to professional representation in their pursuit of the American Dream of homeownership.

“No one should be denied access to opportunity simply because they have experienced a medical emergency.”This statement is unfortunately laden with poor assumptions.

Landlords cannot evict tenants or threaten to evict victim tenants for domestic violence, abuse, or sexual assault.

There is denying and then shifting the blame.