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Section 101

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Section 101
Parent Document
Alexander v. United States Department of Housing & Urban Development, 441 U.S. 39 (1979)
Effective Date
1979-04-17
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We recognize, of course, that an agency’s intent in acquiring property appears irrelevant to those displaced by federal order. From a tenant’s perspective, the costs of dislocation are the same regardless of whether an agency anticipated causing displacements when it acquired property. Nonetheless, Congress chose to condition eligibility for relocation benefits on the agency’s purpose in acquiring property, and our function is not to rewrite the statute. The increasing number of default acquisitions by Government agencies may well prompt Congress to expand the Relocation Act’s coverage. 46 But until *67