Waleska Velez v. Cuyahoga Metro. Housing Authority, 795 F.3d 578 (2015)

Citation: Waleska Velez v. Cuyahoga Metro. Housing Authority, 795 F.3d 578 (2015)
Parent Document: Waleska Velez v. Cuyahoga Metro. Housing Authority, 795 F.3d 578 (2015)
Jurisdiction: United States (federal)
Effective Date: 2015-07-30
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2821966/waleska-velez-v-cuyahoga-metro-... ↗

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in obtaining a decent place to live and of promoting economically mixed housing.” 88 Stat. at
662. This housing assistance program authorized PHAs to enter into “assistance contracts” with
owners of private dwellings, which must “provide that assistance payments may be made only
with respect to a dwelling unit under lease for occupancy by a family determined to be a lower
income family at the time it initially occupied such dwelling unit . . . .” Id. at 664. The
assistance contract establishes “the maximum monthly rent (including utilities and all
maintenance and management charges) which the owner is entitled to receive for each dwelling
unit with respect to which such assistance payments are to be made.” Id. at 663. The 1974 Act
thus understands rent as the amount the “owner is entitled to receive” under the “lease for
occupancy.” Rent operates, then, as the sum paid to live in and make use of rental property.
Further, rent had the same meaning in 1974 as in 1937. Cf. “Rent, n. 3.a”, Webster’s New
International Dictionary 1923 (3d ed. 1976) (materially the same as 1935 edition); American
Heritage Dictionary 1102 (New College ed. 1976) (materially the same); Black’s Law Dictionary
1166 (5th ed. 1979) (“Consideration paid for use or occupation of property. . . . At common law,
term referred to compensation or return of value given at stated times for the possession of lands
and tenements corporeal.”).

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