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Nebraska Legislature Bill LB 223

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About LB 223:

Prohibit discrimination based on lawful source of income under the Nebraska Fair Housing Act

 

Property owners would be required to take any lawful sources of income (for instance, Section 8). Property owners would then have to take time out of our day to meet with Gov’t inspectors with the section 8 program and comply with the inspectors’ findings.  Section 8 definitely increases costs with no guaranteed or easy way to recover those funds.

Public Hearing:

Thursday, January 30th, 2025 at 1:30PM

Room 1525

What Can You Do?

Please use the following link to SUBMIT COMMENTS ONLINE FOR LB 223 and leave your comment for the Judicial Committee to express your OPPOSITION for LB 223 (see below for link)

*MUST SUBMIT BY THURSDAY, JANUARY 30th BY 8:00am*

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"Senators, LB 223 creates another protected class of individual that is based on source of income. There is no such nationally recognized class of individual. This is a bad precedent and opens up the door for anyone else to apply to the legislature to have themselves declared as a protected class based on what they think are their unique circumstances of victimhood. This bill would result in discrimination claims being laid against landlords who discern that a prospective tenant is a poor risk due to an unstable source of income. This is akin to telling a bank or car dealer that they have to give a loan to an individual without considering their ability to repay the loan. Specifically this law forces landlords to accept voucher program individuals or risk being sued for discrimination. It is an attempt to force private landlords to work with the dysfunctional Omaha Housing Authority. Many landlords do not want to work with them because of significant problems they have encountered with OHA and many have said they would rather quit offering rentals than be forced to work with OHA. At a time when affordable housing is in very short supply you should not encourage landlords to quit the business. Last session the Legislature passed a bill that reformed OHA’s eviction process, this year there is bill to force OHA to more effectively treat bedbugs in their own buildings and they have a class action lawsuit against them because of bedbugs. They are obviously a very poor landlord themselves so why would you try to force private landlords to deal with OHA? Many of our members are happy to deal with Douglas County Housing but are loathe to deal with OHA. If you want more landlords to take voucher tenants you need to overhaul OHA not punish private landlords because of OHA’s problems. Senators, I urge you to reject LB 223. Thank you."



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To get a loan from a bank for a house you must provide proof of income, to get a loan for a car you must provide proof of income. To get a credit card you must provide proof of income. All of these companies are not required to consider governmental assistance as additional income. Why should investors in Nebraska be forced to consider that income. An investor can decide if they will take section 8 as a payment form and decide not to take this form of payment. This should not be forced upon investors.

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