Does a landlord have to tell you he has Section 8 tenants in the building?

[PayrollHRGuy]

New Jersey. Short story: We have been subject to bullying and toxic environment due to Section 8 tenants in the building. The landlord did not tell us about them before moving in.

It appears he's rather protecting them (easy secure paycheck from the state, understandably), rather than us. We have never missed a payment and have excellent credit score.

Was he obliged to let us know about them before moving it?

The answer to your primary question is no.

The LL is also not your Mommy or Hall Monitor. If the acts of ANY tenants rise to the level that they are a real problem call the police.

 

[Zigner]

Yes, back to the OP

What the hell do you care WHAT the source of income is? Are you SOOOO affluent that you can't live with the peasants?

 

[DeenaCA]

How does the OP even know that other tenants are receiving housing choice voucher ("Section 8") assistance? That information is confidential.

The program responsibilities of the HCV landlord are laid out in the housing assistance payments contract ("HAP contract"). While the landlord is prohibited from discriminating, there's no duty to protect HCV participants from discrimination by others. The contract does impose some additional responsibilities on the landlord (for example, in regard to victims of domestic violence or transfer of the property), but that is not one of them.

 

[FarmerJ]

The only thing that S8 forces a LL to do is abide by its rules such as forcing a LL to pick and choose if they order repairs during a annual inspection that is done before they renew the tenants lease and if the LL has a very destructive tenant who keeps damaging the home to the point the LL cant keep up /wants the tenant out etc and S8 puts the LL into abatement . Then of course another rule they have IS when the tenant has not followed the rules and under reports income and S8 holds payments back then LL will have to collect the difference or begin to evict.

 

[Zigner]

How does the OP even know that other tenants are receiving housing choice voucher ("Section 8") assistance?

I'm sure the OP can ferret out those people.