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Silentarrowz t1_jdw0zqe wrote

Reply to comment by Luke90210 in NYC tenants report rampant housing discrimination by landlords over vouchers by DrogDrill

Discrimination is the right word, small landlords just don't want to hear it. If you don't have the ability to handle this, maybe you just shouldn't be a landlord? There is no legal guarantee that every citizen can be a landlord, maybe some of the small ones just aren't cut out for it? Maybe they should try a different job if they can't run it. If a restaurant was failing to pay their employees on time in NYC no one would say "oh it's tough for restaurateurs out there give them a break." We'd say "You knew how tough the NYC market was before you invested in it. If you can't handle that then get out."

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soyeahiknow t1_jdwn6br wrote

Its called the free market. Would you want a job where you have to jump through hoops and nonsense to get paid? Or would you settlle on another job doing the same work and making the same amount without all the bullshit?

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Silentarrowz t1_jdxe6el wrote

It's called a legal obligation. I know landlords only like using that word when it comes to things that benefit them, but in some cases renters do in fact have rights, and you are in fact legally obligated to abide by them. If you get 400 applicants and decide to take someone with higher income that's one thing. If you do what a lot of landlords do and keep properties posted until they find someone with a preset income threshold and refuse to even consider voucher tenants? Scum of the earth.

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Luke90210 t1_jdxga0a wrote

Restaurants are not forced to sell food under some government program. Supermarkets are and gladly do as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) consistently pays out. When Section 8 gets the same reputation without the constant horror stories, please let us know.

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Silentarrowz t1_jdxgofy wrote

Then lobby for more funding for it. The people that want things like section 8 are not the same people who want it in its current state.

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Luke90210 t1_jdxl5gh wrote

Paying for more Section 8 housing at a better rate will not solve the lack of affordable housing. Only more housing construction will. Now, would more demand stimulate more housing stock to meet the demand? It hasn't so far.

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Silentarrowz t1_jdxni05 wrote

So let's fund more public/affordable housing. Let's build the housing and when it gets proposed actually build it instead going "well that apartment would be near a really pretty park...so we should just not build it." The NIMBYism in NYC from landlords that also deny section 8 is pathetic.

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Luke90210 t1_jdxorf5 wrote

I like the idea of more public housing. However, most of public housing construction was funded by the federal government. They don't do that sort of thing anymore. NYCHA loses money as the rents are set up as a percentage of income driving anyone making a solid income away. And NYCHA is poorly managed.

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Silentarrowz t1_jdxs65b wrote

The NIMBYism is a hard barrier in my eyes. There have been dozens of proposals for even private development that have been shot down for being too close to this, or being seen from that.

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