I know a guy who buys crappy houses, cover the rot with new aluminum siding and covers the rotting floors with plyboard and cheap rugs and makes a mint renting to section 8.
He says he doesnt really care what happens to the houses as they are crap anyway and he gets his checks from the Gubmint every month.
They call that “flipping”. I worked for a guy that did this except, to be fair, he really did try to craft a decent house out of crap. FLIPPERS had a bad reputation at that time but hey, now they have an HGTV show actually called “FLIPPING” something, something.
But this guy never rented to Section 8’rs but like I say, he really did a nice job with his renovations.
I suspect that your guy and his fine refurbished houses are likely the only single homes rented to section 8’rs.
Again....a hunch.