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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Similar to the 1974 Act, the 1983 Act authorizes “monthly assistance payment[s]” to
owners on behalf of qualifying families. 97 Stat. at 1181. Importantly, under the voucher
program (as with the certificate program), the monthly assistance payment subsidizes a family’s
monthly rent; the family pays in rent the amount required by the lease minus the assistance
payment. Although not explicit, the 1983 Act operates under the same assumption as the
1974 Act that the family pays a monthly sum to the owner in exchange for its use and occupancy
of the housing. And, again, the dictionary definition of rent remained materially unchanged
between 1974 and 1983. Cf. Webster’s New International Dictionary 1923 (3d ed. 1981) (same
as 1976 edition); Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary 998 (9th ed. 1985) (materially the same).
We conclude that, based on the plain meaning of the word in context, rent in Section 8 of the
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