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Section 101

Citation
Section 101
Parent Document
Alexander v. United States Department of Housing & Urban Development, 441 U.S. 39 (1979)
Effective Date
1979-04-17
Original Source
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The tenants contend that “acquiring agency” simply denotes a governmental body that has previously acquired property and that eventually orders persons to vacate. In contrast, HUD reads the phrase as a shorthand description of an agency currently engaged in the process of acquiring property. Under HUD’s construction, the written order clause contains an implicit acquisition requirement. The clause thus construed does not apply unless an agency’s proposed acquisition of property *48