LINCOLN- A coalition that has been advocating for a local ordinance banning housing discrimination based on a renter’s source of income plans to launch an initiative to get the question on the city ballot this spring. “We have been working on it for a while,” said Kasey Ogle, senior staff attorney with Collective Impact, a partnership between Nebraska Appleseed and Civic Nebraska to support resident-led investment and positive change in the city’s core neighborhoods.

Group leaders say the city offers no protections against source-of-income discrimination, which includes prospective tenants being turned away because they want to use federal Section 8 vouchers, Social Security or disability benefits, child support or other forms of legal income.

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