Letter: Response to Proposed Subsidized Housing Legislation

Adam Skolnik, executive director of the Maryland Multi-Housing Association, submitted a response to a blog about Dundalk's high concentration of subsidized renters.

  Dundalk Patch received the following letter from Adam Skolnik, executive director of the Maryland Multi-Housing Association, in response to a blog about Dundalk's high concentration of subsidized renters: Dear Mr. Beeler, I represent owners and managers of 161,000 apartments in the State of Maryland.  We are opposed the source of income laws (mandatory section 8) for a number of reasons. First and foremost do you honestly believe that the “source of income” that a person makes is the same as the Fair Housing protected classes that Maryland currently recognizes? Following are the national and state protected classes.  Is how you earn your money comparable to skin color, national origin, race or religion? We are against this law because …

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