The results of a fair housing survey show Iowa City property owners denied about half of the people who use housing vouchers.

The Iowa City Human Rights Office conducted the survey after a change in an ordinance surrounding Housing Choice Vouchers. Those vouchers provide rental assistance. The 2016 ordinance change says property owners can't deny a rental unit to someone solely because they use the Housing Choice Voucher.

The office surveyed about 14 percent of the people using housing vouchers in the city from October to December of last year. It showed property owners denied people using the Housing Choice Voucher Program half of the time.

The Human Rights Office wants renters that this has affected to reach out to their office.