IN THE NEWS---NY LAW REQUIRING LANDLORDS TO ACCEPT SECTION 8 VOUCHERS RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL

An issue of interest to area landlords.... New York’s state Supreme Court Appellate Division released a ruling Thursday that could further complicate the state’s affordability crisis. The court ruled a state law that requires landlords to accept Section 8 vouchers is unconstitutional.

The court’s ruling said in part: “As a consequence of this law, landlords are now forced to consent to governmental searches of their rental properties and records. Given that, for the reasons that follow, the source-of-income discrimination law violates landlords' Fourth Amendment rights to be free from unlawful searches, we are constrained to conclude that the law is unconstitutional on its face.” MORE AT Section 8 voucher ruling shocks housing community