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Section 8

Citation
Section 8
Parent Document
Park Village Apartment Tenants Ass'n v. Mortimer Howard Trust, 636 F.3d 1150 (2011)
Effective Date
2011-02-25

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The individual Plaintiffs are a group of elderly, low-income
tenants of a former project-based, federally subsidized Section
8 housing complex. They argue that federal law gives them a
right to remain in the complex and to pay a portion of their
rent by using federally funded “enhanced vouchers.” Defen-
dants, who own the housing complex, argue that the tenants
have no right to remain in the complex or to use such vouch-
ers to pay their rent. Defendants further contend that even if
the tenants have a right to remain in the complex and to pay
a portion of their rent relying on such vouchers, a court cannot
compel them to enter into a contract with the local housing
authority that would require them to provide a certain level of
service to tenants of the complex, so long as Defendants are
willing to forego payment of that portion of the rent covered
by the “enhanced vouchers.”