Revision would affect city's landlords

CHAMPAIGN – The Champaign City Council is being urged to change its human rights ordinance to effectively require that city landlords must accept Section 8 rent subsidies from low-income people.

A three-member subcommittee of the Champaign Human Relations Commission unanimously recommended Thursday that the human rights ordinance should be amended to specify that federal Section 8 payments are considered a source of income and that landlords can't discriminate against people seeking to rent an apartment or house by using a Section 8 voucher as payment.

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