I’ve heard there are a lot of advantages, like you get paid directly by the govt. If they gave the rent money to the tenants, well, you know.
The program tells YOU how much YOU can charge for rent based on FMR calcs (I used to do them) A lot of landlords went around the system and decided to let the tenant pay the difference of what S8 would pay and what the market rents were. If they got caught, they were thrown off the program.
On the other hand, generations of felons could be on the system as tenants. We also have to this day a dubious demonrat pol representing the minority community as a HUGE landlord in the Rochester NY area (David Gantt) He had a rep for being one of the worst landlords ever.
Landlords were under the mistaken impression that the S8 program “screened” the tenants. All S8 did was affirm they were “poor” although many of them had better furniture and cars than you or I.
BOATLOADS of fraud going on; one of the reasons why I left.