No discrimination based on lawful income or payment source
N.J.S.A. 10:5-12State law
A landlord may not discriminate in housing based on the lawful income or lawful rent or mortgage payment source used by a tenant or purchaser, including by denying a lawful Section 8 voucher recipient the right to rent solely because of that income source.
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The source
… disability, nationality, affectional or sexual orientation, familial status, and domestic partner status. “ Familial status ” means families with a child or children under 18 years old and/ or pregnant women, and “ disability” is used to include persons afflicted with AIDS or HIV or thought to be afflicted with AIDS. The LAD also prohibits housing discrimination based on the source of lawful income or source of lawful rent or mortgage payment a tenant or purchaser uses. This means, for example, that a landlord cannot deny the lawful recipient of a Section 8 HUD voucher the right to rent an apartment based solely on that source of lawful income. 3. What does this mean to me? • All persons, regardless of their membership in one of the protected classes stated above or source of lawful…
- Official law
- Open the official source
- Document
- D068, retrieved Oct 1, 2026
- Dates
- In force
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- Conditions not extracted yet.
- Exemptions
- The brochure states exceptions for certain owner-occupied two-family and one-family rentals.
- What you can do next
- Read the law at its official source
Audit trail
The model reads the law; code decides who it covers. The line between them stays visible.
Extracted by the model
What the model read from the source text, checked by code (the quote must appear word for word).
- Category
- Screening
- Requirement
- A landlord may not discriminate in housing based on the lawful income or lawful rent or mortgage payment source used by a tenant or purchaser, including by denying a lawful Section 8 voucher recipient the right to rent solely because of that income source.
- Key value
- none
- Effect
- protection_or_duty
- Quote found in source
- yes
- Confidence
- 90%
reasoning boundary
Decided by code
Deterministic: same rules, facts and date give the same answer.
- Jurisdiction: listed only for addresses whose state or legal city is NJ.
- Dates: no effective date in the text; treated as in force.
- Coverage: tested against what the building is used for, whether the owner lives in the building; a missing fact gives "unknown", never a guess.
As of Oct 1, 2026Engine run
Sources retrieved Oct 1, 2026.
Which buildings it reaches
All 140 sample addresses in New Jersey on Oct 1, 2026.
- 140 applies
Every dot is the rule engine’s result for that address. The larger dots are the example addresses listed below.
Decided by code for the example addresses
On Oct 1, 2026. Rules that don’t apply are left out.
- 327 Jackson St, Hoboken: Applies. N.J.S.A. 10:5-12 covers this address: apartment building (NJ class 4C (apartments, 5+ units)).