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Council previews proposed source-of-income nondiscrimination, rental-registration and property-maintenance changes
Summary
City staff placed three housing-related actions on the council agenda: an amendment to the nondiscrimination ordinance to ban source-of-income discrimination, a limited rental-registration program, and changes to property-maintenance adjudication; council members asked for enforcement details and data from other cities before Tuesday’s vote.
City staff placed three separate housing-related actions on the Oct. 21 agenda that the council will consider as independent votes: an amendment to the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance to prohibit source-of-income discrimination, a limited rental-registration program targeted at repeat violators and hard-to-reach out-of-state owners, and changes to property-maintenance procedures including elimination of the environmental court and adoption of a new adjudication process.
The items were summarized by a city official when the consent and non-consent agendas were presented. A councilmember asked whether adding source-of-income protections is a new idea for Wichita; staff said the item would be an amendment to the current…
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