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Originally posted by sgtclub
Please let me know if either of you take concrete steps to put this into law. I will want to sell my property well before then.
The question I have for all of you is who is going to make the determination as to who is permitted and not permitted to live where? And are you going to have compulsory acceptance of the vouchers? Seems to me you would have to in order for this to work. Also seems to me to be a taking, but as has been documented here before I'm no con law scholar.
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The law already provides for, albeit ineffectively, compulsory acceptance of vouchers.* It's in the amendments to the Fair Housing Act. As to compulsory acceptance of vouchers constituting a "taking" under the Fifth Amendment (like the pun?), vouchers are a form of scrip, exchangeable for cash. In other words, they are compensation, the same as any other type of rent.
ETA at least in Chicago, where the City's ordinance on fair housing provides that governmental subsidies are not a permissible reason to deny a prospective tenant. 
