§ 1437f

Citation: § 1437f
Parent Document: Nozzi v. Housing Authority, 806 F.3d 1178 (2015)
Jurisdiction: United States (federal)
Effective Date: 2015-11-30
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/3158630/nozzi-v-housing-authority/ ↗

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Furthermore, the payment standard was far from a
primary subject of the Housing Authority’s one-hour
introductory Session to the Section 8 program. At that
Session, information must be provided to new beneficiaries
regarding: where they may lease a unit, which landlords may
be willing to lease a unit to them, how long they have to find
a unit, how they may request an extension, the advantage of
choosing to live in an area that does not have a high
concentration of low-income families, how to complete the
forms required to request approval of a rental unit, 24 C.F.R.
§ 982.301, how people with disabilities can request a
reasonable accommodation, the amount of utilities that a
tenant would be allowed to use, and what steps tenants can
take to avoid housing discrimination. In that same one hour
period, the Housing Authority also attempted to explain how
the Voucher Program worked generally, including the
formula used to calculate a tenant’s portion of the rent and the
complicated and convoluted role that the payment standards
play in that calculation.

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