New Yorkers with housing vouchers say they are frequently ghosted by brokers or real estate agents who learn they have government-backed rent subsidies — even though the program is supposed to guarantee the bulk of their monthly rent payment.
is falling to nonprofit organizations and private attorneys. They also want the city to develop more housing that is affordable to the lowest-income residents in order to decrease the competition for scant apartments.introduced in Washington by Rep. Nydia Velázquez earlier this week, which would ban source of income discrimination on the federal level.
“But once they ask about income and I say I work part time and I have a voucher, everything changes,” said Negron, who is trying to move from an apartment in the University Heights neighborhood of the Bronx. “Their facial expression, their tone of voice, and then they say ‘we’ll see’ and I just get ghosted.”“I had someone make fun of me and bad-mouth me on the phone and I found that disgusting," she said. “I don’t even get to see the place. I don’t even get that far.
Jorge said many brokers steered her away from apartments or told her a unit had just been rented out as soon as they learned she had a voucher.
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