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US county rejects bill against housing discrimination
Published Thu, Aug 4, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Washington
THE Baltimore County Council this week considered a bill that would have barred landlords from turning away prospective tenants based on how they come by their rent money.
"Source of income" laws are meant to protect low-income tenants for whom fair housing's more well-trod precepts - landlords can't discriminate by race, religion, disability or family status - aren't enough.
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