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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This will backfire.  The main benefit of Section 8 is that rental payment is guaranteed and reliable.

It does have policy downsides, because it effectively increases average rent, so it's complicated.  But the bottom line is that a landlord would be less likely to rent to a Section 8 receipient if responsibility for payment switched from the government to the individual.

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Isn't the point of this whole thing that the landlord would have no idea the renter is getting a voucher since they are paying in cash? So the renter would have more housing options but it would also be easier for landlords to evict should they not pay. [/quote]

In low rent neighborhoods Section 8 tenants are preferred over non-Section 8 tenants because non-payment of rent is not a risk.  In higher rent neighborhoods landlords do credit checks to screen out people who might not pay their rent.

The main problem. from a landlord's persepctive, with Section 8 is the inspection requirements.[/quote]

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