I’ll be doing catsitting this summer to bring in a little extra cash while I’m off work studying for the bar exam. I have two cats of my own and have fostered more than 20 cats through BARCS. Feel free to DM to connect!

I agree and said in my comment “in practice discrimination … occurs.”

Ok. Well then sounds like those property managers and owners are engaging in illegal housing discrimination. Good luck and have a good day.

Thanks for this clarification about what you meant. Sounds like we agree that in practice, discrimination based on voucher status occurs. My point was to be clear that landlords can’t simply “not take vouchers” in Maryland. Several of those methods you listed are simply ways to circumvent the law (some more sneaky/hard to prove than others) and in the right circumstances you could have a valid case of housing discrimination.

When you say “not enough people who will take vouchers,” what do you mean? In Maryland it is illegal to discriminate based on source of income (i.e., whether someone’s rent payments come from vouchers, disability, etc.).

There’s a shop in Fed Hill called Sugar Boat that has some cute cards. I don’t know that all of them are local, but based on my memory and the merchandise at the store, I’m betting a good number of them are.