The group doesn’t include Cleveland, where landlords can explicitly exclude housing voucher recipients from rental properties.
Eight cities in Northeast Ohio have passed laws barring ‘income-based discrimination’ in housing, which landlords often use to reject renters that receive housing vouchers or other subsidies.
Five of the eight municipalities are located in Cuyahoga County, but don’t include the city of Cleveland. As Dakotah Kennedy explains in an article for Signal Cleveland, “Cleveland doesn’t protect people against source of income discrimination. If you’ve looked at apartment listings, you may have seen ads that say ‘no vouchers’ or ‘no Section 8.’” Close to 15,000 households in Chuyahoga County rely on Section 8 vouchers for rental assistance.
None of the new regulations specifically mention Section 8 or vouchers. “South Euclid includes ‘receipt of public assistance’ in the city’s definition of source of income discrimination.”
FULL STORY: ‘No Section 8’: Eight Northeast Ohio cities ban housing discrimination based on ‘source of income’
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Missouri Governor Reverses Anti-Discrimination Housing Policies
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New Jersey’s second-largest city bans standalone data centers
Jersey City will continue to allow co-location facilities, such as those meant for research institutions that store their own data.
Amtrak not solely to blame for New Jersey commuter rail's unreliability, report finds
A new study from the Garden State Initiative found that NJ Transit’s budget grew 20% across a 4 year period, but reliability declined significantly over the same period.
EPA erases limits on planet-warming pollution from power plants
Under Monday’s plan, power plants would still have some limits on how much mercury, arsenic and other contaminants they can emit.
Phoenix announces new on-demand transit service, more frequent RAPID buses
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