How can I find a Section 8 application and apply for Section 8 in San Jose California?

A recent mandate is somewhat forcing landlords to accept Section 8 tenants. The ordinance also can allow voucher recipients to move into areas that might not have landlords as receptive to the vouchers. Landlords who place ads stating Section 8 need not apply or who are found to discriminate against equally suitable tenants on such basis would be subject to legal action. HUD sued a prominent landlord in 2015 over its Section 8 law, which it put in place in the late 1990s. That case is still in court a judge rejected a bid to dismiss the action last May. In the midst of our affordability crisis, targeting poor and working families for unfair treatment in housing is unconscionable, said San Jose Attorney Dennis Herrera at the time. However, a letter written to the Santa Clara County supervisors by the three real estate groups maintained that mandating participation by all landlords in a program designed to be voluntary is the wrong approach. Many small property owners are likely to choose selling their properties, it states, over being forced into this program. Mel Kranz, of the San Jose Affordable Housing Network, said he knows hundreds of people who can not find a place to live in Silicon Valley because they face Section 8 discrimination for those who have completed a HUD application online. There are landlords who say we would prefer not to have Section 8 in our house, in our boat, in our neighborhood, maybe we do not want them in our country, he said. It is discrimination against people who can not pay outrageous rents to live here and need help to do so. It is like discriminating against someone because of their age, sex or ethnicity.