Cindy Rodriguez
Cindy Rodriguez has been a staff reporter at WNYC, New York Public Radio since July of 2002. As the station’s urban policy reporter she covers the impacts of poverty on communities in all five boroughs. ...
Low Income Tenants Get Hotline to Report Discrimination
Friday, July 18, 2008
New York, NY –
A new hotline is taking calls from low income tenants experiencing housing discrimination because they don't have a lot of money. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez reports.
REPORTER: A new law requires all but the smallest landlords to accept Section 8 and other government programs from low income tenants who use the assistance to pay the rent. City Councilman Bill de Blasio sponsored the legislation and says his office has been flooded with calls from tenants having trouble with landlords. And he complained owners are flouting the law on Craigslist.
DE BLASIO: Literally you can go on right now and see listings that say no programs, no Section 8 allowed.
REPORTER: De Blasio says his office will be calling Craigslist. But the councilman concedes some landlords may not know about the law since it just went into effect in March. The Rent Stabilization Association says many landlords are frustrated by the complicated and burdensome rules of government programs. For WNYC, I'm Cindy Rodriguez.
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