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Earlier this year, Virginia passed several exciting fair housing bills. These bills make it illegal to discriminate based on source of income, sexual orientation, gender identity, and veteran status.

Minimum income requirements set by housing providers to screen out housing voucher holders are illegal source of income discrimination.

The exclusion of low-income individuals and families, especially African American families, from the private rental market contributes to the ongoing patterns of gentrification and displacement [...]

Despite source of income protections, voucher holders still face illegal outright denials as well as more covert forms of deterrence from housing.