Good for them. This should help a lot of people.

Wouldn't this only affect properties in unincorporated areas?

Agreed, rpb. And all of this while the Dow is hitting records, unemployment keeps dropping, and the economy continues to get better and better.

Yeah, well these things take time, Im sure the need was at an all time high when this began.

Im glad it helps people, but we should try to work towards not needing so much government assistance.

Fuck this. I bought a townhouse at the peak of the bubble and moved out in 2009. Was forced to keep the townhouse as a rental as I was well under water in fucking Carpentersville. Last I checked values were down 45-50% from when I bought. And they are going to tell me how i have to rent to. Fuck them.

I can't afford 1 bad tenant and I go to great lengths to rent to responsible qualified people, even leaving it vacant for a month or 2 at a time to find the perfect person.

nomination supported, fuck anyone who thinks this doesn't fuck over small time people. If the government wants to cover my loses that's one thing. But I didn't fuck over the bank and am trying to do the right thing and they are telling me who I have to rent to. Total Bull shit.

This. All you need is one sec 8 renter to move in stop paying and then you go through hell trying for a year to move them out and you lose the house. I am not sure on the intricacies of sec 8 or this bill but hardly seems fair. I was under the impression they designate sec 8 housing before it is being built or through some other application process by owners willing to do it.

The Dow has nothing to do with the economy as it is experienced by average citizens. A lot of the long-term unemployed no longer qualify for unemployment compensation and are thus not counted as "unemployed" by the federal government. Many of the jobs that are being created do not pay a living wage. Additionally, something like 300,000 jobs need to be created every month just to keep pace with the number of people who are entering the job market. We haven't seen that level of job creation in several years and thus have a "jobs deficit" totaling in the millions. In the past year, economic inequality in the U.S. reached its highest level since the 1890s, the freaking Gilded Age. That means that we have effectively undone many of the middle class-building measures of the past century--the reforms of the Progressive Era, the New Deal, the G.I. Bill, the Great Society--and now live in a society where it's as if none of that history took place. I'm not even going to get into the amount of wealth millions of ordinary people have lost due to the foreclosure epidemic. This economy sucks.

It's not like you don't go through hell with non-section 8 people.

It's not like you don't go through hell with non-section 8 people.

I dont know, KD. Turd and Mike's points make sense.

Its a lot easier to evict non section 8, right?

This law wouldn't need to exist if section 8 people were just as good as non-section 8.

Anyways, most renters will just have income requirements for tenants, which will actually hurt poor people more.

Seems too easy. Surely the gov't thought of that

It's only easy if you have nice apartments. If it's a cheap apartment, your tenants are likely to not meet the standards. If you require someone makes $50k a year(more for families) you need to have it be nice enough to attract those people.

Just buy a house.

From what I read it covers all of suburban Cook County.

And, for those that don't know, you are effectively letting the Government into your property on a regular basis, as they have to at least do an initial compliance inspection, and any complaints thereafter, by tenants or otherwise, get an inspector called out with violations that need to be fixed in a very short time frame.

Communism.